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The latest monthly summary of climate for Florida for September 2017 is now available at their web site. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=514. The North Carolina summary is available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=243&h=5666e5c1.
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Here’s an astounding fact on timber losses in Florida due to Hurricane Irma from David Zierden on Twitter, passed on from the Florida Forest Service: the amount totalled $1.633Billion, equal to about five of Florida’s annual timber harvests. I have not seen similar loss estimates for Georgia or South Carolina so far.
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Many experts believe that fights about water will dominate the future, as water becomes more in demand as populations grow, especially in urban areas, and warmer temperatures lead to more evaporation. Fox News posted a story this week about fears in Egypt due to the construction of a huge dam upstream on the Nile in…
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Weather Underground posted a story about the effects of the heavy rain on the water level of Lake Okeechobee today. It describes how rain from Hurricane Irma brought the water level up to over 16 feet above sea level. They can only remove about a quarter inch of water from the lake every day through…
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The preliminary summary of climate for September 2017 shows that a large part of the Southeast was much above normal in precipitation due to rains from Hurricanes Harvey in Alabama and western Georgia and Irma in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Virginia, North Carolina and western Alabama largely missed the tropical rains and were below…
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One of the things that weather events of the past month have taught us is that our society is not prepared to deal with extreme weather that we already know from experience is happening now. Over 60 inches of rain near Beaumont TX in just a couple of days! Winds of 185 mph in Puerto…
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Vegetable Growers News reported this week that many vegetable growers in Florida were not insured and will face significant losses from Hurricane Irma, including plants that were already in the ground as well as plastic sheeting used to prepare strawberry fields for the upcoming season. USDA reported in a study earlier this year that only…