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WCJB-TV in Gainesville FL reported earlier this week on the terrible hail which fell in Florida North Central Florida. The heavy hail hit and damaged many young watermelon plants, damaging stems and potentially delaying or even destroying a lot of this year’s crop. This region produces roughly one-third of Florida’s watermelon crop every year, roughly…
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The lack of rainfall in the last week has led to the expansion of abnormally dry (D0) conditions across a wide swath of the Southeast and the introduction of a small area of moderate drought (D1) into Alabama. The moderate drought in Georgia and South Carolina also expanded. The next week looks relatively dry, so…
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More heartbreaking stories continue to come out of northeast Nebraska and surrounding areas hit hard by flooding. I saw a picture yesterday of Highway 2 near Nebraska City looking east towards I-29 and realized that I drove on that road just last summer headed to a meeting of climatologists. Now it’s under a wide river…
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Have you ever needed to settle a bar bet about the weather but did not know where to go to get the right information? Or maybe you just have a weather-crazy kid or grandkid that wants to know everything they can about the worst weather ever. This web site is for you–the State Climate Extremes…
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The latest monthly Water Resources Outlook video from the National Weather Service has been posted to YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQJKSsEASs&feature=youtu.be.
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The latest seasonal climate summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can find it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportWinter2018_19.pdf.
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The Southeast Farm Press posted an interesting story today which describes how weather and climate impact the development of a uniform field of corn, which is key to getting the top yields. One of things that is needed is a string of 4 days in a row with temperatures at or above 60 F. This…