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Hourly weather forecasts are something that you might find useful in planning your work week or watching for the possibility of frost (or extreme heat in the summer). You can use your local television forecast or a smartphone app to get forecasts, but they don’t always show the forecast right at your location. Here is…
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I love maps and was excited to discover this new mapping tool that allows you to look at climate diversity and change over time across the globe. It was designed by a University of Cincinnati professor and is interactive. You may want to look at the manual (red box at top right) to get the…
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A new study linking extreme winter weather in the U.S. East with a warmer Arctic has drawn fire from some global warming skeptics. Some argue the record is too short to make good conclusions, and others say that correlation is not the same as causation. How do we know if this study is accurate? Are…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that heavy rain will continue to fall in the northwestern parts of the region including northern Alabama, northwest Georgia and the western Carolinas and Virginia while largely skipping the Florida peninsula and the Atlantic coast. This could cause drought conditions in the already dry areas there to expand in…
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This time of year farmers are chomping at the bit to get out into the fields and start planting their crops for the season. I’ve seen a number of comments online that planting of corn is well underway in southern Georgia already. But this article from AgWeb points out that planting when the soil is…
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Futurity.org posted an interesting article recently about how shifts in temperature and precipitation in the eastern US are changing the populations of tree species around the regions. While some of the changes are expected due to an increase in temperature over time, some of the other changes are unexpected. For example, changes in the carbon…
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Every month I post maps and links to the latest seasonal forecasts from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Most of you read them, and some of you even believe them. Here in the Southeast we generally have a better chance of skill because our winter climate is tied to the ENSO phase (currently coming out of…