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This week is Hurricane Awareness Week at many National Weather Service offices. You can see a lot of their tips for preparing for the upcoming Atlantic tropical season by following your local NWS office on social media. Here is one PDF slide set from the NWS office in Charleston SC which describes some of the…
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Sea levels along the Carolina coasts are rising at the rate of about an inch a year. This is much faster than scientists expected it to rise, and it is causing a lot of problems with flooding on days when there is no flooding caused by weather events, just by unusually high tides like king…
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There has been a lot in the news lately about the coral bleaching along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and other coral reefs around the world. Some research has attributed it to warming ocean waters due to climate change. Here is a good infographic from NOAA on how climate change might be affecting the…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that the coastal plains and Piedmont regions of the Southeast will be largely bypassed by rain this week. Some rain from a subtropical system in the Atlantic Ocean will fall on southern Florida, which could alleviate some of the drought there. Rain will also fall in the Tennessee…
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While chill hours this winter provided plenty of needed cold weather for peaches, combination of extremely warm weather in February and two separate frosts in March obliterated the peach crop in northern Florida this year, according to the Northwest District newsletter released today. Unfortunately, 2017 was also a loss for peach production there due to…
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The latest reading of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii shows that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has now passed 410 parts per million. This is a level that has not been seen on earth in at least the last 800,000 years according to data from ocean and ice cores. As…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can find this product at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportApril2018.pdf. If you are only getting a text version, try refreshing your cache to get the version with graphics.
Posted in: Climate summaries