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Today’s Drought Monitor shows some fairly widespread improvements in drought over the region since last week. Many areas received significant rains and showed a one-category improvement in drought status. Other areas stayed at the same level. A few areas actually experienced worse drought conditions this week and small expansions in severe drought were seen in…
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The latest video from Georgia Climate Stories features an interview with a long-time blueberry producer in southern Georgia and the changes he has seen in climate over time. He discusses the problems they have had with blueberries and frost for the last three seasons and how that is impacting their production. You can view the…
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If you haven’t been paying attention, you should know that Georgia is in a Supreme Court battle with Florida (and to a lesser extent Alabama) over how water passing through Georgia from the northeast mountains through Atlanta and down into the fertile southwestern part of the state before heading south into Florida should be allocated…
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The latest US climate statistics for October 2019 were released today and show that for the Southeast as a whole, the average temperature was the third warmest on record. Florida was the second warmest ever, especially in the southern part of the peninsula. The precipitation was the 11th wettest, but of course there was a…
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I don’t listen to many podcasts, but I made an exception for this one. One of my favorite climatologists, Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information, talks to UGA Professor Dr. Marshall Shepherd of the Weather Channel‘s Weather Geeks about the differences between weather and climate, and climate change myths, and takes us…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina for October 2019 is now available. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=303&h=5666e5c1.
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Did you know that the Southeast has two severe weather seasons each year? In addition to the spring severe weather season, we have a second season in late fall when the polar front moves towards the equator as the sun angle decreases. This leads to more dynamic systems that can bring strong winds, hail and…