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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=299&h=5666e5c1.
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows an expansion of drought conditions across the Southeast, including the addition of a number of scattered areas of extreme (D3) drought in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Drought expanded in all of the Southeastern states and Alabama and Georgia are now 100% covered by abnormally dry conditions or worse.…
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I love this story from the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences about how Georgia 4-H, a part of UGA Extension, is offering the My Preparedness Initiative (My PI) program to provide students with extensive training to be better equipped in case of emergencies. According to the story here, the students have to be…
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Historical records of hurricanes only go back a few hundred years and are captured mainly in places where people lived in coastal areas. How do climatologists learn about hurricanes which occurred before humans were there to record their occurrence? It turns out that hurricanes leave recognizable patterns of mud and sand deposits in coastal areas…
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The Global Climate Dashboard is a NOAA tool which allows you to look at trends in climate over time for a variety of variables like sea level, carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere, and incoming sunlight. You can read more about it here. Or you can access it directly along with other maps and tools…
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Because of the dry conditions across a lot of the Southeast in September, many stations in the region reported their highest ever average maximum temperature for the month, according to maps from the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool (https://sercc.com/perspectives). Minimum temperatures were also ranked in the top five at many places but almost none…
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I once did a project looking at trends in auto sales at big outdoor lots depending on the weather. Not surprisingly, rainy and snowy days cut sales at those lots, especially on weekends. Even if the weather was good the next week, the sales never quite came back. Here is a new study described in…
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