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Now here’s a story you don’t see every day. According to this CBS Colorado report, “Two southeastern Colorado ranch owners were recently sentenced to pay $6.6 million to resolve federal charges that they damaged or altered rain gauges in an effort to get paid for worsening drought conditions. By preventing the rain gauges from accurately…
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Those of you who work with teens may be interested in this recent story by Yale Climate Connections on a new video game that helps teach teens how to navigate various weather disasters and how to stay calm — even amid confusion and chaos. I haven’t tried it out, but you might want to take…
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NOAA’s latest seasonal report was released late last week covering the February and December through February winter climate. It shows that for the lower 48 states, it was the warmest winter on record since official records began in 1895. The Southeast was the only region where the temperatures were near normal due to the cooler…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that there have been improvements across the region. While a lot of the region is already out of drought due to earlier rain events, this past week additional rain has improved conditions in eastern NC, SC, and northern AL, and in Puerto Rico, too. This weekend…
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Once the current storm system moves out of the region, it should be relatively dry until late in the week, when the next system moves in. It looks like it will be another wet one and Alabama could see several inches by Saturday night, with the rest of the region experiencing the rain following after…
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With the end of the official winter season, now is a good time to compare the winter outlooks for the Farmers’ Almanac and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. A quick look shows that the CPC did a much better job of depicting our wet and warm winter than either of the almanacs did. We don’t know…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued an updated outlook for March 2024 at the end of the month. It shows that for a lot of the Southeast a continuation of the wetter and warmer conditions is likely. We are already starting out with a very wet first week, with some areas expecting 5 inches or more,…
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