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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that abnormally dry conditions continue to shrink in the region. The latest map shows that the only state with any remnant abnormally dry conditions is Alabama. With normal rain expected in the next week, those two last areas may also be phased out in next week’s…
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One month ago, dry conditions across Georgia were hampering the best efforts of producers to get their crops in and see them flourish. It seemed likely to me that we were headed into a drought, as often happens in the spring following the end of a La Nina. Then, in mid-May, the atmosphere threw a…
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As the new interim director of the Georgia Weather Network, I’ve already heard some interesting stories about the critters technicians find inside their weather station equipment boxes. Here’s a story from The Weather Channel about some of the even stranger things folks have found at or near weather stations around the country. Be careful when…
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The latest monthly summary of climate for our region from the Southeast Regional Climate Center is now available. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportMay2018.pdf.
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For the past 20 years, NASA has provide a great inventory of satellite pictures of the earth available to view through their Worldview app at no charge. You can view volcanic eruptions, floods, and a wealth of climate information through their site. Read more about it at EarthSky at https://earthsky.org/earth/explore-20-years-earth-data-satellite-nasa.
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At last we are seeing some dry days in the Southeast, and I am sure that farmers are working overtime to catch up on work as soon as they can get into their fields. Here are a couple more stories about rain impacts on crops from Southeast Farm Press, Vegetable and Specialty Crop News and Southeast…
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A new study in Nature this week showed results of research on the forward speed of hurricanes and how it has changed over time. A rough rule of thumb for the amount of rain dropped by a tropical system is to take 100 and divide it by the forward speed in miles per hour to…