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While the 2017 hurricane season is long since gone, parts of the US that were under its impact are still returning to life. Atlas Obscura has an interesting story (originally published in the Huffington Post) about the reblooming of an ancient ceiba tree on the Island of Vieques off the east coast of Puerto Rico.…
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If you are a Georgia Extension agent, you may have stopped by my table at the meeting down in Tifton this week to see my CoCoRaHS rain gauge and checked your county to see how many rainfall observers your county has. But whether you have 50 or none, we would love to add your new…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows very slight changes in the amount of abnormally dry conditions across the region from last week. In Florida the amount of abnormally dry conditions decreased a bit, while there were slight expansions in South Carolina and Georgia. There is currently no drought in the region. The dry…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released by NOAA today. It shows that for the lower 48 states, this was the wettest December through February period on record (going back to 1895). Most of the country was wetter than normal, with only a small part of the 48 states drier than normal.…
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If you follow this blog regularly, you already know that recently an El Niño was recently declared. This after several months when we expected it to begin, but it did not quite get its act together. You might be wondering why this is. Here is a new blog post from Climate.gov by Nat Johnson which…
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The latest monthly summary for February 2o19 is now available from the Florida Climate Center as a PDF download at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=533.
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The latest monthly climate summary from North Carolina is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=279.
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