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The latest climate summary for 2017 was just issued by the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can access it at https://sercc.com/climateinfo_files/monthly/southeast_monthly_report/southeast20171_12.pdf.
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The latest outlook on La Niña was released by NOAA this week. It’s a look at the current state of ENSO (the see-saw that occurs between El Niño and La Niña and a discussion of what a double-dip La Niña is as well as a forecast for what to expect next. It also shows how…
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While this is only tangentially related to climate, it’s an interesting story about avocados anyway. Atlas Obscura provides another quirky tale of odd things from the past. In this case, how avocados developed and spread with the help of giant and now extinct giant land sloths. You can read the story here.
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After another week with below-normal rain, the National Drought Monitor has introduced severe (D2) drought to parts of Georgia and Florida along with a tiny corner of Alabama. Moderate drought has also expanded as well as abnormally dry conditions, so now over 3/4 of the region is covered by dry conditions. The only exceptions are…
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Outside magazine had an interesting article about the snow drought in the West. In spite of recent rains that have caused fatal mudslides in parts of California, the mountains out west overall have received only 29% of their normal snowfall. This could bode poorly for water supplies in spring and into next summer, when irrigators…
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The National Centers for Environment Information has a new series of articles describing the value of some of the products that they put out. Here is a recent one on the value of the Drought Monitor. You can read it here.
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According to an article today in Southeast Farm Press, the Arctic cold that invaded the Southeast in the last few weeks has done good things for farmers. After a couple of warm winters, the frigid air will help to kill nematodes, whiteflies, and other cold-sensitive pests that were a real problem this past growing season.…