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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has just released their monthly climate summary for June 2018. You can access it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJune2018.pdf.
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Here’s the most interesting story I’ve seen this week. BBC News reported that due to the pervasive drought they have been experiencing, fields are yielding up secret outlines of former fortresses and castles. The fortifications are marked by deeper soils than average, resulting in more moisture and better crops. Green lines and circles in the…
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Today’s question from the Georgia Climate Project Roadmap discusses the importance of understanding the risks that we are likely to see from extreme weather on urban and rural infrastructure. This could include changes in the frequency or severity of tropical storms, increases in flooding and the impact on roads, manure lagoons, etc. and higher temperatures…
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Have you ever seen mammatus clouds? They look like pillows of clouds hanging down from the undersides of thunderstorm anvils. Especially noticeable at sunset or any time when there is a low sun angle, but they can occur any time. Some of my friends reported seeing some yesterday with some thunderstorms that passed through Atlanta.…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that rain is expected over all of the Southeast except for just some light rain in Virginia. The heaviest amounts are located off the coast where Tropical Depression Three (expected to become TS Chris sometime today) is meandering around. The area around the Gulf of Mexico will also…
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Happy Aphelion! The summer in the Northern Hemisphere is NOT warmer because we are closer to the sun. In fact, today marks the point in Earth’s orbit when we’re furthest from the sun. The exact time is 12:46 pm EDT when the Earth will be 94,507,803 miles from the Sun. We’ll be 3.1 million miles…
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Atlanta magazine has a very interesting and concerning story this month on Georgia’s barrier islands and marshy coasts and the communities that are located there. I have been to Jekyll Island, St. Mary’s, Tybee Island, and Darien, and have seen how close these communities are to the ocean. The article discusses what steps the residents…