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The latest YouTube edition of the Water Resources Outlook from the National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center is now available. You can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9c21SqqrIQ&feature=youtu.be . Lots of good information!
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Cotton Grower magazine noted this week that Texas cotton growers in the Panhandle are worried about their cotton yields this fall after a cool summer reduced the heat units needed for development. Because of the delay in reaching maturity, they are now worried about the impact of fall frost, which could come as early as…
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Estimating the costs of the trends to a warmer climate which we have seen since the 1970’s is difficult because there are so many factors involved in how a warmer climate might affect things like agriculture, energy production, etc. And of course they are moving targets because people can and do adapt to these changes…
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The CoCoRaHS monitoring network (that’s Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network) has a new kind of data that you can provide to help farmers, water managers, government agencies, and others keep track of your local conditions, even where there is no good weather station data available. The data they are collecting is called “Condition…
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Zillow.com posted an interesting story this week which shows the potential loss of properties if sea level rises an average of 6 feet by 2100. Of course we don’t know for sure that it will rise six feet, and certainly the rise in sea level won’t be uniform across the coasts because of local contributing…
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While the tropics have quieted down quite a bit from their earlier spate of activity, it’s important to remember that the official end of the Atlantic tropical season is November 30, and that we still have almost a month to go before it ends (and some storms have occurred outside the regular season, for that…
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I’ve seen an interesting story this week in a couple of news outlets describing a recent study which linked volcanic eruptions at high latitudes to the flood climatology of the Nile and also to uprisings in Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra. Using ice corp data and climate modeling, scientists were able to link low…