Here in Athens GA, it has rained every day so far this November. It is raining now as I write this. That makes seven days in a row with measurable rainfall. My mushrooms are doing great! I’ve been asked more than once how unusual this is. To answer this question,…
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NOAA’s latest set of maps summarizing the climate of the US shows that for October, the contiguous 48 states were the fourth warmest since records began in 1895. For the January through October period, the nation was the 6th warmest on record. You can see the breakdown by climate division…
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I got a phone call today from a peach producer here in Georgia who was wondering why the chill hours this year are so low compared to previous years. For example, near my office in Watkinsville GA we have only received 28 chill hours from October 1 through yesterday compared…
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Many media stories have focused on either climate change or El Niño as an explanation for why the North Pacific Ocean is so warm this year. Yesterday this blog discussed one of the consequences of the warm water–the record-setting tropical season in the Pacific Ocean this year, which has far…
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Did you know that the Southeast experiences a second peak in severe weather in late fall? While the biggest newsmaker is the spring severe weather season, there are a significant number of tornadoes that occur around November, particularly in the southern parts of the country. Weather Underground produced a story…
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The Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang had an excellent article summarizing the amazing record-breaking tropical season in the Northern Hemisphere this year. Not only did the numbers break the old records, they smashed them. The number of named storms was up 48 percent from normal, the number of hurricanes was…
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Up in Michigan, where I was born, thinking about snow in November is a regular occurrence. Here in the Southeast, snow does not usually hit until much later, if ever. The Daily Mail just published a NOAA map of the median date of first measurable snowfall with a link…
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