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This week’s Drought Monitor showed continued improvements in drought conditions across most of the Southeast this week, not a surprise considering the rainy conditions we have seen on and off this past week. Every state saw some improvement, and only a few small areas of worsening conditions were seen, mostly in north central Alabama and…
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It’s ten days until the end of the Atlantic hurricane season, and as I write this, named storm #19, Sebastien, is moving through the Central Atlantic (no threat to the Southeast, happily). It’s predicted to become a hurricane on Thursday. It’s been a busy year, which was predicted by NOAA and other groups, but what…
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With nearly the entire globe warming (although some parts are warming faster than others), it will take concerted effort by everyone to help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and reduce the trend towards warmer conditions. Farmers are an integral part of this, and many of the actions they can take are…
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I love to look at satellite pictures as well as astronomy images and other imagery from NASA. Today they announced that they are making their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free, which will allow all of us to enjoy their striking photos and videos of stars, auroras, hurricanes, and other natural phenomena. You…
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Here is a useful site for farmers concerned with the impacts of harmful weather on their crops. USDA has a page which collects information on programs to help farmers recover from drought, hurricanes and other severe weather at https://www.farmers.gov/. If you are a farmer or work with them, this might have some links worth checking…
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If you use a weather app on your smartphone to see what the weather is expected to be like today, you may notice from time to time that the app is a complete bust and the forecast is dead wrong. If you compare forecasts from different weather apps, you may also see differences in the…
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The latest global climate summary from NOAA was released today for October 2019. It shows that the month was the second warmest since global records began in 1880, after October 2015. The January through October period was also the second warmest on record after 2016. Note that the western US was a huge anomaly, one…
Posted in: Climate summaries