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Stu Ostro of the Weather Channel posted a set of the most amazing weather images from 2018 at the end of the year. If you have not had the chance to view them yet, take a few minutes to see some of the spectacular views of weather from earth last year. You can view them…
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One of the stories I noticed over Christmas break was a detailed story from the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting on the lingering impacts of Hurricane Irma, which hit Florida in 2017. Even though it has been a long time since the storm hit, some of the more vulnerable populations are still trying to recover…
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The latest climate outlooks for February and February-through-April were released today (in spite of the government shutdown, and thanks to the NOAA folk who are working without paychecks at the moment to produce them!). The map shows that February is leaning towards colder temperatures than normal across Georgia, with drier than normal conditions a bit…
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With the continued lack of rainfall in the Florida peninsula, an area of severe (D2) drought has been added to the Drought Monitor map this week. The severe drought stretches along the east coast northeast of Lake Okeechobee. Rainfall in the next week will probably keep things unchanged in next week’s map. No drought elsewhere…
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Here is an interesting site that shows what your weather will be like over the next few days by plotting the results of several different weather models side by side. When the models agree, the lines are all close together, indicating good agreement. When they diverge, then you know the models are less certain. In…
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I’ve frequently been asked how we know that human activity is responsible for a warming earth. Of course there are natural factors that are influencing the climate, such as sunspots (on time scales up to a decade), orbital variations around the sun (on time scales of 10,000 to 100,000 years), and volcanic eruptions (effects usually…
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Here are two recent stories that sum up the year in Georgia agriculture. WSB described the gut-wrenching losses due to Hurricane Michael in some parts of the state as well as impacts from frost on peach farmers here. Then the Atlanta Journal-Constitution described the impacts of Hurricanes Michael (and Irma last year) on pecan production…