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Yale Environment 360 has a really interesting article which describes some of the ways that climate zones are shifting on earth. This has profound implications for agriculture as well as ecosystems because the climate zones (defined by a combination of temperature and precipitation characteristics) determine the kinds of crops you can grow and when you…
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Because of the drought that has been affecting the Southeast, including most of Georgia, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division declared a Level 1 drought response for 103 counties in the state. A Level 1 Drought Response does not require specific watering restrictions beyond what is normally in place but requires that water utilities will circulate…
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Small tornadoes can be a problem in land-falling tropical systems, and Nestor was no exception. Damage from several tornadoes was observed in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina as the storm passed. The Weather Channel has a good article summarizing the damage from Nestor, including the tornadoes, which you can view at https://weather.com/news/news/2019-10-19-tropical-storm-nestor-florida-tornado-georgia-carolinas.
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A week ago drought was expanding across the Southeast and many farmers were desperately hoping for relief. It’s now a week later and that relief has come for many parts of the Southeast from the one-two punch of a slow-moving warm front and Tropical Storm Nestor, which traversed the region Friday night through Saturday night.…
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I woke up this morning to the sound of Nestor’s rain on my roof. It should be falling most of the day, including at tonight’s football game, along with gusty winds. Not good weather for kickers and passers! We will see a lot of rain over the next week from Nestor and two other weather…
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The latest track of Tropical Storm Nestor just came out at 11 pm EDT, and shows that the center of Nestor is likely to make landfall early tomorrow morning, just two or three hours after my blog digest comes out. Nestor is a lopsided storm, so a lot of the rain will be out ahead…
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Measurements of sea level across the world show rising waters along most ocean coastlines, including the United States. But according to a story by WRLN in Miami, the regular forecasts for high and low tide do not take that rising water into account yet, leading to bigger errors in tide forecasts than would normally be…