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While I hope that it’s a long time before another weather (or other) disaster hits anyone in the Southeast, any good steward knows that it is important to be prepared just in case. Here is a good short article which describes some of the steps you can take to make sure that if something bad…
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Now that grape harvest is starting, I’ll be providing harvest outlooks for the grape growers across the region on the UGA Viticulture page, but I thought I would also share them here for others who might be harvesting crops in the next few weeks. Today we are seeing the passage of a rare summer cold…
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Drought affects trees on many different time scales. In the Southeast, we grow a lot of trees in controlled conditions for timber. The timber is managed by planting, thinning, and harvesting. Until recently, there have been very few studies done on the impacts of management techniques like thinning on the trees’ resilience to drought and…
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A welcome and fairly rare summer cold front will be moving through the Southeast this week. As it passes, it will bring rain to most of the region, then cooler temperatures and drier air once the front passes. The front will pass through Alabama and Georgia by mid-week and then stall out near the coast,…
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Just in time for the latest heat way, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center announced a new interactive heat index map for the US which shows the average number of hours with the heat index above several thresholds. This is available for the first order weather stations at the larger airports. You can view it at…
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The latest monthly and seasonal outlooks for the US were released earlier this week. They show that for both August and the August through October period, temperature likelihood leans towards warmer than normal conditions, but precipitation shows equal chances of near, below and above normal. The remaining drought in the Southeast is expected to be…
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The latest global climate report was released today by NOAA for June 2019. It shows that for the earth as a whole, the month was the warmest June since records began in 1880. The South Central US was one of the few places that was cooler than normal, but the Southeast was warmer than normal.…
Posted in: Climate summaries