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The next week should be almost completely dry for those in the area affected by Hurricane Michael this past week. Those dry conditions should help recovery efforts in clearing roads, repairing power lines, fixing houses, and recovering scattered livestock. They need all the help they can get! We are thinking of them as we see…
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There will be a lot of stories about Hurricane Michael being published in the next few weeks. Here are a few of interest that I saw this morning. Don’t miss the story at the end! Washington Post: Historic and horrendous Hurricane Michael by the numbers CIMMS blog: Power Outages in the Wake of Hurricane Michael…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina published a “Rapid Release” article this morning about the impacts of the remains of Hurricane Michael on North Carolina. While Hurricane Florence hit coastal areas hard in September, this time the Piedmont suffered the worst damage from the storm. Wind gusts up to 67 mph and rain up…
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While it is far too early to provide a definitive estimate of the losses that have occurred to Georgia agriculture from Hurricane Michael, here are a couple of articles which start to gather information about how bad the losses could be. The Southeast Farm Press reported here that Michael caused significant damage to cotton, peanuts,…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a slight increase in moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions across the Southeast in the past week. However, the cutoff date for the map was last Tuesday, before Michael came onshore, so I expect to see significant reductions in dry conditions in next week’s map.
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I don’t usually take the time to brag about the UGA Weather Network, a network of 86 weather stations scattered around Georgia taking high-quality weather measurements which are used by a variety of groups, including the National Weather Service, media outlets, and many agricultural producers as well as university scientists. But I am proud to…
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As the remains of Hurricane Michael moves northeast out of Georgia and into South Carolina, and later today, North Carolina and Virginia, producers will get a first look at the damage caused by winds of up to 155 mph along the coast. The pictures I’ve seen so far aren’t pretty, with groves of tree snapped…