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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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The National Farmers Union published a short column which discusses the Agriculture chapter in the recently released National Climate Assessment 4 and what the findings mean for farmers. I think it is a pretty balanced statement of the potential costs of climate change to producers and how their economics are likely to change in the…
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BizNow had an interesting story recently about why coastal developers continue to develop properties along the shoreline, even with the spate of recent hurricanes and with increases in nuisance flooding as sea levels creep up. You can read it here. The developers aren’t necessarily climate change deniers because they are quite risk averse, but many…
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While driving home from a winter weather conference today, I heard a conservative radio host say that humans could not possibly change the climate because it is too big to be affected by us. Of course, this is silly because humans have been changing their local climates for a long time, and with the number…