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Even though the weather has not been perfect for planting in a lot of the Southeast, there is one place that has had almost perfect weather for cotton planting. The North Carolina Blacklands, with its rich, fertile farmland that hugs the Atlantic Coastline, usually has cool and wet weather in spring, but this year had…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region should see their wettest conditions midweek, although amounts will not be large. In South Florida, the rain will be the heaviest over the next three days and showers should taper off later in the week. The area of central Florida with the worst drought…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released on Thursday, shows that the only state in the Southeast that has drought is Florida, although a few patches of abnormally dry conditions (D0) are found in Alabama, North and South Carolina, and Virginia. The total area of dry conditions in central Florida has not changed much but a section…
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One question I get asked every hurricane season is where we expect the storms to move this year. It’s not an easy question to answer because it depends on both large-scale weather patterns like the position of the Bermuda high and short-term weather systems like the current jet stream and frontal pattern, since those help…
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If you are interested in reading about the impacts of rising sea levels on coastlines, here are a couple of other articles you might find interesting. Yahoo News: France’s historic D-Day beaches threatened by rising sea levels Washington Post: Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the South Yahoo News: Scientists sound alarm…
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In the past I have written articles about mangroves in Florida and how they are expanding across the Southeast. For example, see https://site.extension.uga.edu/climate/2018/02/mangroves-are-expanding-across-the-south-and-its-a-mixed-blessing/. So I was not surprised to read recently that mangroves have now been found in Georgia in areas that have been coastal marshes in Savannah Now and how that expansion of range…
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Sea levels across the United States are increasing, especially in the Southeast. In fact, they are rising at an accelerating rate, which is leading to concerns about how coastal communities will deal with the higher water levels in the future. The rise is due to a number of causes, including groundwater withdrawals, changes in the…