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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that for a large part of the Southeast, there will be little rain in the next week. Great news if you are trying to harvest, but maybe not so good if you are still trying to fill pods or keep your crops going for a few more weeks.…
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Today is September 1, and that means that summer is over and fall has begun for those of us who study the climate! We won’t feel fall-like weather today in the Southeast but hey, maybe this IS fall for a lot of us. Must be fall if there is football, right? UPDATE: I started out…
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The New York Times has an interesting interactive web site which shows you how many days per year your hometown is above 90 F now and how that is likely to change over time. It also compared your hometown to other parts of the world, many of which will feel a lot more heat than…
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Since today is the last day of August and of summer 2018, I thought I would take a quick preliminary look at the climate of the past three months. As you can see from the High Plains Regional Climate Center maps below, in August temperatures were variable across the region, with the warmest temperatures along…
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Today is the last day of meteorological summer. Some folks have asked me whether there is any relationship between summer conditions and fall ones. In the Southeast, the answer is “not much”. There is a positive correlation, so that warmer than average summers do trend towards warmer than average falls, but it’s not strong. You…
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This time of year there is no shortage of stories about agriculture and climate in the media. Many of them are geared to one place, and of course I tend to look at the ones in the US first. But there are a lot coming from other countries as well. Here are a few that…
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The North Central Region Water Network has a recording of a recent webinar on wind energy and its impact on rural communities available on YouTube. While this webinar is focused on Michigan, it has good lessons for rural communities in other parts of the country as well. The Southeast is not a big producer of…