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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has produced a summary of the 2017 climate in North Carolina, highlighting the extreme events as well as providing summary statistics. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=253&h=5666e5c1.
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Atlas Obscura has another interesting story this week about a small park near St. Louis filled with four pecan trees that survived the 1993 floods. When the area was rebuilt after the flood, the community protected the 100-year-old trees with a new levee and a park to protect them. You can read more about it…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has published their latest video rendition of the monthly water outlook this week. This one takes a special look at the reservoirs around the Southeast and where they are compared to normal conditions. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8mm48XJ-4&feature=youtu.be.
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In the latest issue of the Drought Monitor, severe drought (D2) has expanded again across parts of the Southeast, including southwestern Georgia, central Alabama, and a small area in northeastern Virginia. Some rain later this week may provide a bit of relief but we still expect drought to continue for the next few weeks unless…
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I don’t usually post financial news on this blog, but this post from Clark Howard struck me as something that some folks in the Southeast might need to know. Here’s what the post says: “People who experienced an income drop as a result of living in a hurricane disaster area during 2017 will be encouraged…
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This is from the “You Don’t See This Every Day” category…BBC is reporting that a runaway cow in Poland has joined up with a herd of bison and is hanging out with them over the winter, although she seems to be hanging onto the edge of the herd rather than being incorporated into it. This…
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Here is a fun tool from the New York Times. You type in your city (there are 3800 possibilities) and see a daily record of high and low temperature and monthly accumulated precipitation, with annotations for records. I have it set to Atlanta but you can easily check your own city. Try it at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/21/world/year-in-weather.html#atl.