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The Southeast is not the only part of the country with a water war. Here, it’s between Georgia, Florida and Alabama about the water in the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River (ACF) basin. Out west, it’s a war over who gets the water of the Colorado River, which provides irrigation water and power to a number of states…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a useful article on the importance of monitoring wind conditions when you are applying herbicides and other agricultural chemicals earlier this week. This is especially true when you have a temperature inversion which can trap air near the ground, concentrating the chemicals there. When that happens, the herbicides can migrate…
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The 7-day forecast for rainfall in the Southeast shows that we are expected to get up to several inches of rain in the next week. Most of that will fall Sunday night into Tuesday morning as a low passes over Alabama and Georgia. After that passes, rainfall amounts will be light. We can use the…
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Aerosols are small particles that are lofted into the atmosphere by the effects of trees, volcanos, and human enterprises like farming, driving, and building. Aerosols in the air can affect the climate in a number of ways. If they are hydroscopic they can attract water vapor and become larger, affecting visibility and how much terrestrial…
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Cape Town, in South Africa, is currently experiencing a drought so bad that it is estimated to happen only once every 300 years (or to be more accurate, is experiencing a drought that has a chance of occurring in a given year of 1/300). This is worse than our D4 drought in Oklahoma and nearby…
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The latest set of outlook maps for May 2018 and beyond are now available from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. They show that May leans towards warmer and wetter than normal for all of the Southeast, with the strongest signal in southern Florida. Warmer than normal conditions are also more likely for the May through July…
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The line of storms that moved across the Southeast this past week has put a dent in drought in most parts of the Southeast. Reductions in moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions were seen in every state, and only a few small areas of South Carolina and Florida increased from moderate to severe drought. Very…
Posted in: Drought