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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub recently released a recording of David Zierden’s talk on agricultural resilience to hurricanes, first given at their workshop in November 2018. Zierden is the Florida State Climatologist and a long-time colleague of mine. You can view the 35-minute video at https://mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Mediasite/Play/c953658392a741d1b3f7a287886cfd7a1d.
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It’s official! North Carolina set a new record for annual rainfall in 2018 when Mount Mitchell reported 139.94 inches of rain. That’s over 11 feet! You can read about how the rainfall was observed and what it takes to get a new record certified at the blog of the State Climate Office of North Carolina…
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The Atlantic has been pretty quiet so far this tropical season, but that may be about to change. A low pressure center now located along the border of Georgia and Tennessee is expected to slowly drift south over the eastern Gulf of Mexico in the next few days. The warm water there could lead to…
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Have you ever been told that climate projections of the future are bad and they are not worth looking at? I’ve heard that many times. You might wonder how they know. My husband John Knox of the UGA Geography Department recently looked at a couple of the older climate predictions of climate to see how…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the heaviest rain this week is expected to be in Florida and along the coastal plains of the East Coast, with up to several inches expected in some areas. Since those areas have been the driest of the region, that may reduce the remaining drought in those counties.…
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In the news today (see first story below) was a story that we can put a dent in climate change by planting billions or even trillions of trees, which will absorb and store carbon dioxide. While that will help slow the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere, it really only buys some time, since the…
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Hope you enjoy the day, however you choose to spend it. Happy birthday, America! If you’ve never read the Declaration of Independence, here is the text below. Worth a read if you have never done so. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen in the Course…
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