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The latest Water Resources Outlook YouTube video for February 2019 is now available from the National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center. It discusses the heavy rain and the record-setting streamflow that is occurring in some parts of the Southeast. You can view the 11-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9UaVcCBApg&feature=youtu.be.
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The Maryland Daily Press posted an interesting story this week about the slow but sure impact that rising sea level is having on coastal residents in rural counties in their state. A lot of the focus on how to deal with higher sea levels and more frequent flooding has been concentrated on the impacts on…
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The most recent Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin for Georgia was released today, with text below. You can read more about it at https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Georgia/Publications/Crop_Progress_and_Condition/. February 25, 2019 GEORGIA: Total rainfall for the month ranged from .088 inches in Chatham County to 13.11 inches in White County. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Georgia remained free…
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The AAAS published a notice about some recent research which looked at the data for the migration of various bird species in Europe and North America. The research by Finnish scientists shows that birds with short migration paths have the biggest changes in when spring migration occurs, while birds with longer migration paths are changing…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a retrospective story this week on the 2018 weather impacts on the Tobacco Belt. Intense heat early in the season was followed by heavy rains. Hurricane Florence destroyed a lot of the tops of the tobacco plants with strong winds and heavy rain, the most valuable part of the crop.…
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Science Friday of National Public Radio (where I was once an intern) has a book club which introduces listeners to new books that discuss interesting aspects of science. This review of N.K. Jemisin’s ‘The Fifth Season’ describes a new book which describes how volcanic eruptions and the atmospheric effects which followed them affected the art…
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Time magazine posted a longform story earlier this week on the terrible drought which has been occurring in Australia this year, combining record-setting high temperatures with very low precipitation amounts. The impacts of this drought on agriculture have been awful, resulting in the losses of immense numbers of cattle and sheep as well as reduced…