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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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Warmer than normal temperatures covered Georgia again in February 2019, with values ranging from five to nine degrees F above average. Heavy rainfall covered the northern quarter of the state, while precipitation two to four inches less than normal covered the rest of the state. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 53.8 degrees F…
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The latest question from the Georgia Climate Project’s Roadmap discusses how we can determine what impacts changes in climate will have on at-risk communities like the rural poor, the elderly, and urban city dwellers. We need to know what data sets we can use before we can determine what those impacts might be. You can…
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