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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that the coastal plains and Piedmont regions of the Southeast will be largely bypassed by rain this week. Some rain from a subtropical system in the Atlantic Ocean will fall on southern Florida, which could alleviate some of the drought there. Rain will also fall in the Tennessee…
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While chill hours this winter provided plenty of needed cold weather for peaches, combination of extremely warm weather in February and two separate frosts in March obliterated the peach crop in northern Florida this year, according to the Northwest District newsletter released today. Unfortunately, 2017 was also a loss for peach production there due to…
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The latest reading of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii shows that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has now passed 410 parts per million. This is a level that has not been seen on earth in at least the last 800,000 years according to data from ocean and ice cores. As…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can find this product at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportApril2018.pdf. If you are only getting a text version, try refreshing your cache to get the version with graphics.
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A wetter and cooler than normal April helped reduce drought conditions across the northern three-quarters of the state going into the start of the growing season. Dry conditions remained in the southeastern corner. Farmers kept busy doing planting and other field work during the month when soil conditions permitted. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature…
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MarketWatch posted a story at the end of April presenting the results of a recent study published in Science which describes the expected economic hits to Gross Domestic Product which states are expected to experience as a result of changing climate. According to the study, Florida is expected to have the highest impact, a loss…
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Atlas Obscura published a short article this week about a new book of photographs of supercell thunderstorms from the Great Plains. The article talks to the photographer, Camille Seaman, about her experiences with chasing storms and getting spectacular photographs of some of them. You can see a few of the images and read more at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/storm-chaser-photographs.…
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