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The recent NCA4 report that was released on Black Friday has elicited a lot of thought from local and regional governments. They are trying to determine how their own climates are changing and trying to determine what to do about those changes, if anything. This 20-minute story from North Carolina Public Radio discusses the changes…
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On Twitter this morning I ran across an article from Bloomberg News which noted that the Chattanooga TN airport (just outside Georgia) is working to become the first completely solar-powered airport in the US. They are working with their local power utility, U. Tennessee-Knoxville, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to add solar cells and…
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This week’s research question from the Georgia Climate Project Roadmap asks policy-makers what steps we can take right now to implement the mitigation of climate change and to adapt to changes that are already occurring. If we can get started on some of these solutions now, it will pay off down the road in making…
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The latest monthly climate summary from NOAA was released this week. It shows that November was 1.6 degrees F colder than average, making it the 3rd coldest November on record. The precipitation average for the continental US was 0.41 inches above normal, which puts it in the top third of all years. The Southeast was…
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It’s raining here at my house in Athens GA this morning, and I expect to see a lot more of it over the next few days. The latest 7-day QPF map shows that we could get several inches over the next week, with one batch exiting the region by Monday and the next coming in…
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The latest monthly summary for November 2018 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can access it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportNovember2018.pdf.
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Today’s Drought Monitor shows that all moderate drought is now gone from Georgia and South Carolina, although a few small residual areas of abnormally dry conditions remain. Those are likely to be removed in next week’s DM with the rains that are expected over the next few days. The moderate drought in east central Florida…
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