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Today Mount Ulawun erupted in an explosive eruption that sent ash well over 50,000 feet in Papua, New Guinea. You can read more about the eruption at MSN at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/papua-new-guinea-volcano-spews-ash-triggering-eruption-alert/ar-AADrDYQ. This is likely to have important consequences for the climate of the Southeast in the next few years, since strong eruptions that put ash and…
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Here is a message from the Southeast Regional Climate Hub (USDA) about presentations from their recent workshop on Building Agricultural Resistance to Hurricanes. Please see below for the links to the different sessions. We’re pleased to announce that presentations from the Building Agricultural Resilience to Hurricanes Workshop are finally available online. See links below. Sorry…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has released their report on spring 2019. You can read about the climate and extreme weather in the region from March through May at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportSpring2019.pdf.
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If you have ever been asked for the climate projections for your county, here is a useful website which provides some of that information. The Climate Explorer at https://crt-climate-explorer.nemac.org/ allows you to look down to the county level to determine projections of future temperature, precipitation, and degree days for a couple of different climate scenarios.…
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Did you know that most of the Southeast used to be covered by grasslands? Now, of course, much of the land is either cultivated for crops or planted as forest, much of which produces agricultural products like timber or wood pellets as well. Here is an interesting story about the grasslands of the Southeast and…
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Now that we are back in a rainier pattern with more frequent showers and thunderstorms, it’s time for a refresher about how to determine how far away a lightning strike is. Contrary to some people’s views, when you see lightning strike and then count the number of seconds until you hear the thunder, it takes…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most areas of the Southeast will receive an inch or so of rain, with the possibility of showers every day. The heaviest rains are expected in the Florida peninsula and the lightest amounts are expected to be in central Virginia and North Carolina.
Posted in: Climate outlooks