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The latest climate outlook for the US was released today by NOAA. The outlook showed that the outlook for June only showed slight leanings in temperature and precipitation in the area around Florida, but the 3-month outlook for June through August shows that for the entire Southeast, temperatures are expected to be warmer than normal,…
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If you are interested in how climate is changing in your state, you should check out the climate summary chapters for each state linked at https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/#maincontent. They provide information on how temperature, precipitation, and other weather variables have changed in each state over time and what additional changes are likely to occur in the next…
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You may have noticed I’ve been posting less often than normal this week. I’ve been busy this week attending the 2023 Georgia Climate Conference in Athens that was organized by the Georgia Climate Project. This meeting of over 500 university and government scientists, students, policymakers, business people, and social scientists discussed how the changes we…
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We are already halfway through May, so let’s take a look at the climate so far this month. The maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that most of the region has been cooler than normal this month so far while rainfall has been less than normal almost everywhere. The exception is Florida,…
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Yale Climate Connections has an interesting explainer that discusses how the warmer temperatures we are seeing due to climate change are leading to an increase in droughts worldwide. For one thing, higher temperatures cause an increase in the speed and amount of evaporation, leading to drier soils and less runoff that can contribute to drought…
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Natural hazards do not have to cause disasters if communities are well prepared for them to occur, but often due to politics, economics, or happenstance this does not occur, leading to injury or even death, destruction, and the loss of community bonds. I don’t often recommend books in this blog but wanted to encourage you…
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Since we are in a typical summertime pattern of scattered rain, you can expect to be hit by some showers and missed by others every day this week. Total amounts for most of the region should be around an inch, but of course your results will vary. The driest period looks like it will occur…
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