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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that drought has expanded across the region this week. The area of extreme (D3) drought has doubled, and only three percent of the region has no drought at all. The largest area of extreme drought is in southern Georgia and northern Florida, where dry conditions cover most…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that rain is finally coming to parts of the Southeast in the next week, which could improve drought conditions in some areas. A small amount of rain is likely to fall early Wednesday morning but won’t amount to much. The bigger event starts on Saturday in northwestern Alabama and…
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Forages this year have taken multiple hits from the weather, first with the fall drought, then the early freeze in mid-November, and then the cycles of warm and cold conditions that we have seen this winter. Many types of forage have been impacted by the cold weather in the past few weeks, leading to loss…
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February 5th is National Weatherperson’s Day. The day commemorates the birth of John Jeffries in 1744. Jeffries, one of Americas first weather observers, began taking daily weather observations in Boston in 1774 and he took the first balloon observation in 1784. You can read more at https://www.weather.gov/cae/NationalWeatherpersonsDay. Today I celebrate all of my friends, colleagues,…
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Warm conditions earlier in the winter led to an early appearance of the first leaf on shrubs in Florida, as reported by the National Phenological Network. Some areas reported leaves appearing as much as two weeks early. But the recent cold outbreaks have stopped that progression of first leaf observations as most plants in Georgia,…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the area of extreme (D3) drought expanded in south-central Georgia and quite a bit of northern Florida this week. Rain has been light to non-existent this week, leading to the decreases. There was a small area of improvement in central Alabama due to more rain there from…
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