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The severe weather of last weekend caused a lot of damage to trees as well as buildings. Cleaning up from storms like this can be dangerous if not done correctly, so make sure you know how to use chain saws safely. If you have to replace a tree, make sure to pick a variety that…
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After last Sunday’s storms, I’ve been asked what apps are best for receiving warnings about current severe weather. I am not a big cell phone user but have found this list to contain some good apps. Remember, the apps are only useful if the phone is on and the volume is up. Even so, at…
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The National Weather Service’s weekly weather briefing is now available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00I2vROYQA&feature=youtu.be. It shows a recap of last week’s severe weather and a first glance at this coming weekend’s severe weather potential, although it is too early to give many details. The most likely timing of any severe weather would be Sunday afternoon/evening…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while abnormally dry conditions were whittled away in Georgia and Alabama, the area of severe (D2) drought in Florida expanded to cover over 20 percent of the state (and a very small area of AL south of Mobile), and moderate drought (D1) increased due to very…
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We are half-way through April 2020, so here is a quick look at our current climate conditions. The map of temperature departures shows a continuation of above normal temperatures for April so far, although the temperatures have been somewhat closer to normal than in previous months. This pattern looks likely to continue through the end…
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Flash droughts like the ones that have afflicted Georgia and the Southeast in 2016 and 2019 come on so rapidly that producers have a hard time reacting to them. Predicting them can be even harder. But flash droughts, which are typically short-term water deficits caused by very little rainfall and high temperatures and affect primarily…
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The latest monthly global climate summary was released today by NOAA. It shows that March 2020 was the second warmest March in 147 years, behind only March 2016, when a strong El Nino was occurring. It was also one of the warmest of any months across the globe. January through March 2020 was also the…
Posted in: Climate summaries