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Every year a little more farmland is converted to development. In some areas, the conversion is a bit more rapid. This map from Modern Farmer shows how much land has been converted from farmland to urban uses between 1992 and 2012. Note how much of the Southeast is being converted, especially in areas surrounding big…
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National Public Radio has an interesting story this week about recent impacts of rising sea level on one of the oldest farms in the US. The farm is located in the Eastern Shore of Maryland and was started by land grant in 1666, long before the US was even a country. Now rising sea levels…
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Since we are just starting out our 2018 hurricane season, now is the time to think about how you are going to handle this year’s potential tropical events. Here is a good article from AZFamily on five lessons that we learned from last year’s storms. While we are not expecting quite so active a season…
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After a cold March and April, the state of Georgia rebounded in May with well above-normal temperatures for almost all of the state. May started out very dry but in the second half of the month, rain fell almost every day at many locations, leading to precipitation totals well above normal. This was aided by…
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Weather Underground had an interesting story a week ago about a terrible weather-related disaster that killed between 100,000 and 230,000 people in China in August 1975. Most of you have probably never heard about it since news reports in the US were quite thin. It’s especially timely this year because high rain amounts and a…
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The monthly climate summary for May 2018 is now available from the Florida Climate Center. According to their report, this is likely to be the wettest May in Florida’s climate history based on preliminary data (final results to come in a week or so from NCEI). You can read their report at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=522.
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The latest monthly summary for North Carolina covering May 2018 is now available. Sneak preview: it was their wettest May ever! You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=259&h=5666e5c1.
Posted in: Climate summaries