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Temperatures above normal at the North Pole in February have stunned climate scientists in recent days. In some cases the temperatures have been over 60 F above average for this time of year. (That would be equivalent to Athens GA being at a temperature of 120 F or so right now). The warm temperatures are…
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As I was driving in to work this morning, I noticed that the peach trees are blooming at the UGA Horticulture Farm in Watkinsville GA. Not a big surprise considering the cold winter, which provided adequate chill hours for many varieties, and the extremely warm conditions which have occurred in the region for the last…
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As you know, the last few weeks have been much MUCH above normal in temperature across the Southeast, with temperatures in many places setting daily records for maximum and high minimum temperatures and quite a few stations expected to set all-time February daily and monthly records. One of the results of this warm weather is…
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Atlas Obscura has a fascinating look at an unusual weather phenomenon–holes in the fog cover that occur over cities in India. A recent study was originally done to see how pollution in those cities affected the formation of fog. But what scientists noticed was that holes in the fog banks occurred in winter as viewed…
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UF/IFAS announced that a new tool which cattle ranchers can use to determine appropriate hay and supplement needs for their cattle in winter is now available. The tool uses an spreadsheet approach with farmer inputs like animal weight, whether she is lactating, and the quality of the base hay to determine the correct supplements to…
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The area of rain that has been dumping inches of rain on the Ohio River Valley is expected to stay mostly to the north and west of the Southeast, but may sag south long enough to bring rain to Alabama and northern Georgia as well as the Carolinas and Virginia while leaving the Florida peninsula…
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The latest blog post on Climate.gov discusses a phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation, which is basically ab atmospheric wave pattern that moves along the equator from west to east, taking 30 to 60 days go all of the way around the globe. The MJO interacts with other weather patterns like ENSO to affect the weather…