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While there is no drought in the Southeast this summer, we are still seeing impacts of past droughts on trees around the area. WABE published a story this week describing the consequences of drought-damaged trees when severe storms bring high winds to the area. You can read about it at https://news.wabe.org/post/summer-storms-bring-down-drought-damaged-trees-atlanta.
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The biggest climate news this week was the release of the annual State of the Climate report for 2016. Written by nearly 500 scientists from 60 different countries (including a number of my friends) who look at many different aspects of the earth-ocean-atmosphere system and the trends in many variables, it provides an unparalleled look…
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According to a recent New York Times article, a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters has shown that sea levels in parts of the Southeast are rising at six times the global average rise. Scientists have proposed a new mechanism for this oddity: Two large-scale atmospheric patterns had intersected to push up the water off the…
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Daniel Brouillette of the Florida Climate Center posted a report describing Tropical Storm Emily, which made landfall near Tampa Bay on July 31, 2017. It caused a small storm surge, gusty winds and heavy rains. You can read the details at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/docs/TS_Emily_Fla_summary_2017.pdf.
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Texas Monthly posted a heartbreaking and poetic story about love and loss in the wildfires that swept Texas cattle country earlier this year. The dry conditions in western Texas caused several large fires that killed thousands of cattle and caused tremendous devastation to ranches across the area. The story has a good discussion of the…
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The latest ENSO forecast shows that neutral conditions are much more likely than either La Niña or El Niño conditions for the next few months. While it’s tough to predict this earlier in the year, usually by August we have a pretty good sense of where the ENSO system will go for the next few…
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The latest Drought Monitor released today shows no changes from last week, including the areas of abnormally dry conditions in Virginia and North and South Carolina.
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