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Many of my meteorologist friends of mine have been watching the progression of Hurricane Irma across the Atlantic for the last several days. There is a lot of hype out there on social media, and some people pushing clickbait have put out wildly speculative (or in some cases, just plain false) information. However, in the…
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In spite of last year’s frost in mid-March, a lot of damage to the peach harvest in Georgia this year did not come from frost but from a lack of chill hours, since most locations in the peach areas of Georgia got much less than they really need for the trees to put out a…
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Any time a hurricane hits an industrial area, unexpected consequences of the damage from the storm can affect supply chains in novel ways. This Bloomberg story about the impacts of Harvey’s destruction on the Texas petrochemical industry, and in particular on the production of one gas called ethylene which is used to produce many different…
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If you’ve been following the news since Hurricane Harvey hit Texas you likely saw more than one story about how Harvey’s rains were or were not influenced by climate change. If you are confused, you are not alone. Here is an article by Jason Samenow of the Capital Weather Gang that provides a no-nonsense look…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that most of the rainfall this week will be offshore near the coasts. Florida should have the highest amounts overall while most of the interior receives lower than normal rainfall, which will be great for producers who are harvesting crops and need drier conditions.
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For meteorologists and climatologists, September 1 is the first day of fall. So if you are tired of hot, humid days (fortunately not as many as usual this year) you will enjoy the change of the seasons. In fact, the next week or so will be below normal in temperature, giving us an earlier than…
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The preliminary climate summary maps for the Southeast show that generally inland and northern parts of the region were cooler than normal and southern and coastal areas were above normal in temperature for August 2017. Rainfall was above normal in Alabama, northern Georgia and the eastern Carolinas and Virginia as well as the west coast…
Posted in: Climate summaries