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The latest Drought Monitor shows that severe drought has expanded in southeastern Georgia. Abnormally dry conditions shrunk in Alabama but expanded in South Carolina. These trends are likely to continue in the next week as most of the rain that is expected will fall in central and north Alabama and Georgia.
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The recent freezes that have affected north and central Georgia have caused a loss of peach blossoms of up to 30% in some areas, according to WSB-TV in Atlanta. This year, peach farmers were feeling hopeful after a cold late December and January gave the trees plenty of chill hours, unlike the past two winters.…
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The Packer noted this week that due to almost ideal weather conditions in February, Florida tomatoes are looking very good and should provide a bountiful harvest this year. Weather problems earlier in the winter reduced production but the warm weather in recent weeks has caused them to ripen quickly. You can read the article here.
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If you want to understand future climate, it’s important to understand what happened in the past. The Guardian posted an article this week about some new research on the causes of the end of the Permian geologic period 252 million years ago. During this great extinction, 70 percent of land vertibrate species and 90 percent…
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Every month NOAA publishes a monthly climate summary which contains information about the ranking of temperature and precipitation by state, climate division, and region as well as statistics on how warm or cold, wet or dry each region is. But there is a wealth of additional information you might not know about. Deke Arndt of…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. It was the warmest February for the Southeast since records began in 1895. You can view the report at https://sercc.com/climateinfo_files/monthly/southeast_monthly_report/southeast201802.pdf.
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The National Hurricane Center has released their final report on Hurricane Irma. It’s 111 pages long, which attests to the impact that Irma had on the United States and especially the Southeast. You can read it at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112017_Irma.pdf.
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