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The latest monthly climate summary for Florida for September 2019 is now available. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/flmonthly2019_09.pdf.
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Record-setting temperatures and almost no rain during September caused a major expansion of drought across Georgia. The dry conditions caused problems for farmers trying to grow forage and harvest peanuts in heavier soils but harvest was ahead of schedule due to the lack of rain. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 82.4 degrees F…
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A flash drought is a severe drought which comes on suddenly, usually through the combination of a near total lack of rainfall and much warmer than normal temperatures. We are seeing a flash drought in the Southeast now, and conditions are rapidly worsening because of the July-like weather. Flash droughts are hard to predict and…
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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…