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Long-time residents of Georgia may remember the devastating floods of Tropical Storm Alberto in July 1994. The rain was so intense that Georgia’s one-day rainfall record was set during that storm, with 21.10 inches recorded at Americus for a 24-hour period ending on July 6, 1994 as the storm stalled over the state. In spite…
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Widespread heavy rains across the Southeast with up to ten inches in a few isolated locations have put a major dent in drought conditions across the region. Many places had drought and abnormally dry conditions completely removed. Others saw the areal coverage of drought reduced by up to two categories. Now there are only a…
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While we had a lot of cold weather in the eastern US this past winter, out west they had warm and dry conditions (the third warmest on record). One of the biggest impacts of this weather was to ski resorts, who lost a lot of business because they did not receive much snow. The results…
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One year ago today a group of experts from around the State of Georgia met together to identify a list of 40 key questions on how climate trends are impacting and/or will impact Georgia in the future. Today the Georgia Climate Project released their Climate Research Roadmap listing these questions and why they are important.…
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The latest issue of NOAA’s “Beyond the Data” blog has an interesting story about the history of the cooperative observer network, the backbone of long-term climate observations across the US. Did you ever wonder how the US has a climate record going back at least 125 years? How do we know what happened before that?…
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The University of Georgia has published a toolkit for coastal communities to assess their public service outreach abilities in times of flooding. This 71-page step by step guide will allow towns and cities along the coast determine their vulnerabilities to coastal flooding from hurricanes and rising sea level and determine what methods of outreach are…
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Early reports on blueberries in North Carolina indicate that farmers there are expecting good yields of berries in spite of cold weather and frost in the first quarter of 2018, according to a report published this week by Southeast Farm Press here. North Carolina is the 6th largest producer of blueberries in the US. The…