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The latest Drought Monitor map, released last Thursday, shows that drought increased in large parts of the Southeast in the past week due to the lack of rain. The area of exceptional D4 drought increased to over 5% of the region. Less than 3 % of the region has no dry conditions at all. Some…
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After a long dry spell, we are looking forward to seeing a higher chance of rain starting on Tuesday afternoon and increasing late in the week as the flow of warm and humid air from the Gulf into the Southeast is growing. There will be a chance of scattered showers on Tuesday and Wednesday, then…
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Those who work in coastal parts of the region will be especially affected by the likely loss of access to a hurricane evacuation planning web-based tool, known as HURREVAC, that is owned by FEMA and administered by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is used by meteorologists and emergency planners to identify areas that need to…
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The most recent Drought Monitor, released late last week, showed an increase in drought conditions across most of the region, although a few small areas that got rain did see some improvement. The biggest increase was in exceptional drought in southern Georgia and northern Florida with some smaller areas of growing drought in the Carolinas.…
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As more greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere, Georgia’s climate is getting warmer and the rainfall patterns are changing. Future changes depend on actions that we take to curb the emissions. Drawdown Georgia has prepared a set of Georgia-specific climate projections for heat and rainfall trends through 2025 that look at how different decisions…
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Those of you who follow ENSO know that we are currently transitioning from La Nina to neutral conditions. A strong El Nino is expected to follow by later this summer and last through next winter, although since it is spring there is still a lot of uncertainty in that forecast. If it does happen, what…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released their official spring outlook for climate conditions across the country. It shows that drought is expected to expand in the western US as well as parts of the Plains over the next three months. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, their forecast shows a good chance of improving conditions over…
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