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Do you spend a lot of time outside this time of year? It could be working on a tractor, feeding cattle, golfing, or out on the water. If so, you should also be weather-aware and be prepared to find a safe place to get away from severe weather, high winds, lightning, and hail. Here are…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued their updated May 2024 outlook for temperature and precipitation today. It shows that as earlier predicted, the entire region is expected to be warmer than normal. The precipitation outlook has shifted from the mid-month prediction and is now showing the potential for the development of drought in the central Florida…
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The 5th National Climate Assessment, released in November, discussed the changes in climate we are observing in the Southeast U. S. You can find the full report at https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/ and the Southeast chapter at https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/22/. I am one of the authors of this chapter. We have been hosting a series of webinars covering the different…
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Yale Climate Connections published a story this week on the likely growth of Atlanta due to migration from coastal areas and more rural parts of the Southeast as sea levels and temperature rise as the climate gets warmer due to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and other factors. Some projections show it could increase from…
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Recent hurricanes like Michael and Idalia have caused tremendous hardship to timber producers, who lost not only their trees but in some cases also their processing plants, leaving them with limited markets even if they have trees to sell. Planting new trees won’t help older farmers since they typically take about 25 years before they…
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A stalled storm system in the central US is bringing round after round of severe weather to that region, but very little rain is expected to make it east to the Southeast in the next week. Alabama will see the best chance since it is nearest that strong system, but most of the rest of…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released on Thursday this past week, shows that areas of abnormally dry (D0) conditions expanded in central Florida and in eastern North Carolina into a little bit of Virginia this week due to the lack of rain we have had along with warmer temperatures. The rapid growth of vegetation is also…
Posted in: Drought