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This week’s Roadmap question from the Georgia Climate Center looks at research and policy questions about how Georgia can make reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. While emissions need to be reduced across the globe, Georgia is a significant emitter of these gases and should be working to…
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Today is December 1, and that means that climatological fall is over and climatological winter has begun. So happy winter everyone, and for those of us who like warm weather, may it be short and sweet! But I hope for enough cold weather to make sure the peaches and blueberries get their needed chill hours…
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an interesting article this week on the impacts of climate change on Georgia. The article is based on the newly released National Climate Assessment 4, which was released on Black Friday by the White House. The article notes that the most immediately threatened part of the state is the coastal communities…
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Rainy conditions in a band focused on the Florida Panhandle, southeast Alabama and southern Georgia are the big rainfall feature for the next week. After the rain moves on, dry conditions will largely cover the Southeast. South Florida will be largely missed by the rains from this storm system.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a slight expansion of abnormally dry conditions in eastern Georgia and South Carolina but no increase in the area of moderate drought. With above normal rainfall expected in most of the driest areas this week, we could see some reduction in drought next week. However, the Florida…
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While we are still officially in ENSO neutral conditions, the signs are all there for the declaration of an El Niño within a few weeks. What does that mean for winter weather across the US? In general, when we have an El Niño, the subtropical jet stream, a river of high winds above the surface…
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The official end of the Atlantic hurricane season is November 30, and since there are no active areas in the Atlantic Ocean right now, NOAA has released their preliminary final summary of the very destructive 2018 season, which included named storms from A to O, including Florence, Gordon, and Michael, which caused tremendous problems for…