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The National Hurricane Center released the last report of the 2018 season, covering Hurricane Florence. Florence caused tremendous damage to North and South Carolina due to heavy rain from the slow-moving system, which caused massive flooding and 22 direct and 30 indirect deaths from the storm. The damage was estimated at $24 billion. You can…
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Weather conditions that are getting warmer, more variable and more extreme are causing farmers to think about new ways to farm. One way is to move cultivation indoors where light, rainfall, and other factors can be controlled and production can occur all year. E&E News posted an interesting story about a huge indoor production facility…
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The National Weather Service has posted an updated web site which provides links to a number of different weather and climate information online resources, including information on where to get weather stations, specialized forecasts for agriculture, and weather insurance. You can find it at https://www.weather.gov/enterprise/.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that for most of the Southeast, the amount of moderate (D1) drought stayed close to what was observed last week. However, in Georgia the moderate drought area increased from 9 to 13 percent. Some areas received rain and lost their drought status while several other small and…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available from the State Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=283&h=5666e5c1.
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After a cool March, the heat returned to Georgia in April 2019, with most of the state experiencing temperatures that were 2 to 3 degrees F above normal. Rainfall was variable across the state, with dry conditions across the southeastern part of the state and a streak of wet conditions stretching from north of Columbus…
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The latest outlook for May 2019 shows that the entire Southeast has a high probability of being above normal in temperature, with a percentage of more than 50% chance of above normal, 33 % chance of near normal, and just 16 % chance of cooler than normal temperatures for the month. Precipitation along the East…
Posted in: Climate outlooks