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The NWS office in Birmingham AL has prepared a series of seven short videos highlighting hurricane awareness and preparedness that are now available on YouTube. These videos are good for everyone to review but are especially useful because they are closed captioned and also feature an American Sign Language interpreter. You can see the first…
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NOAA released their US climate summary for June 2019 today. It shows that June and the year to date average temperature were both near normal in temperature for the contiguous US. Precipitation in June was in the wettest third of all years but not record-setting. The January through June period was 3.74 inches above normal,…
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From 2012 to 2018 I worked as a grant-funded agricultural climatologist on USDA-funded projects looking at the impacts of the changing climate on agriculture in the Southeast. There are a lot of negative impacts that are expected in the future due to warmer temperatures (especially nighttime temperatures), higher humidity, and more frequent floods and droughts,…
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Brad Haire reported in the Southeast Farm Press today that the recent rain that has spread across Georgia in the last few weeks has helped improve corn conditions in the 20% of corn in the state that is not irrigated. A three-week dry spell had farmers worried about yield, but those producers have been relieved…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has released their monthly climate report for June 2019. You can find it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJune2019.pdf. Enjoy!
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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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