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The folks from NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information Systems) have provided a nice summary of the 2019 year in review in ten maps related to drought across the US. We had our share in the Southeast, but it was dwarfed by the exceptional drought in the Four Corners region of the Desert Southwest. Note that…
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If you live in an area affected in 2018 by Hurricane Michael and have trees, you may be interested in attending the 2020 annual meeting of the Southeastern Society of American Foresters (SESAF) in Panama City Beach, FL on February 23-25. The theme of their meeting this year is “Recovery From the Storm – Where…
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The latest preliminary monthly climate outlook for February 2020 was released today. It shows that unlike most of the previous few months, most of the region is now in equal chances of near, below or above normal temperatures. This is a change from the lean towards warmer than normal temperatures we have seen in most…
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I have heard from a few of you asking about whether or not we will get any cold weather this winter. Never fear, in spite of recent very warm temperatures, a pattern shift in the next week should bring a lot cooler weather to the region. By early next week we should see some frosty…
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NOAA and NASA jointly released their global climate summaries for 2019 today at the American Meteorological Society meeting I am attending in Boston this week. Both agencies agreed that 2019 was the second warmest year for the globe since records began in 1880, after 2016, although they used slightly different methods to get their estimates.…
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The year 2019 was remarkable in a number of ways climatologically. One way is the number of billion-dollar weather disasters that occurred. There were 14 different disasters that racked up such high dollar totals, including 3 flooding events, 8 severe storm events, 2 tropical cyclone events, and 1 wildfire event. Nearly half of the loss…
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Cities borrow money by selling municipal bonds. A story this week in the Post and Courier in Charleston SC notes that finance companies are now starting to ask coastal cities are planning for climate change. The interest rates at which they can borrow money are starting to be affected these plans. The same thing is…