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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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This week many of us were a little surprised to hear that the National Hurricane Center determined that a big swirl that meteorologists noticed in the Atlantic Ocean in January had qualified as an official subtropical storm after examination of additional weather data tabulated after the storm dissipated. Since NHC counts subtropical storms as part…
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NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary for the globe as a whole today and it showed that the earth as a whole was the 4th warmest month ever. The Southern Hemisphere saw its warmest month on record and the global oceans reached a record high temperature for April. For the year to date, it…
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The latest ENSO outlook was released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. It shows that ENSO is likely to turn to El Nino in the May through July period and to persist through the winter. While there is still some uncertainty because of the spring predictability barrier, the forecasts show an 80 percent chance of…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that there were only slight changes in drought this week. Abnormally dry (D0) conditions expanded in Virginia and extreme (D3) drought expanded slightly in Florida but other changes were small. Rain amounts this coming week are expected to be moderate in most areas so I don’t see any…
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Vegetable crops are harvested across the Southeast throughout the year. This time of year the production of cool-weather crops like broccoli is going full-speed. Here is a story from John Holcomb at the Farm Monitor describing how broccoli production is affected by soil moisture and heat stress. I was interested to read that monitoring soil…