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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has released their latest Water Resource Outlook video. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU-AZrybsKQ&feature=youtu.be.
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The latest Drought Monitor published this morning shows that only 0.38% of the Southeast is now in abnormally dry conditions, including small patches in eastern Georgia and in central Virginia. All drought is gone. In many places, farmers are rejoicing, but in other areas too much rain has made it difficult to get into the…
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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted an interesting story this week on the growth of the carrot industry in northeast Florida in recent years as producers are looking for new crops to grow. According to the story, the total number of acres produced in Florida is around 5,000 acres, which is small compared to bigger…
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Scientists have been watching the birth of a new massive iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica over the past few months. Today it was announced that the final separation of the huge ice chunk has occurred as the last 3-mile segment of crack split. Since this is floating ice, the loss of…
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Eos had an interesting article this week about how turbulent pockets of air inside of thunderstorms can help set up the conditions necessarily for lightning, a new finding published recently in Journal of Geophysics: Atmospheres. The new study shows that the bumpy air not only caused your plane to jump up and down but can…
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Every once in a while when you look at a rainbow you see extra bands of colored light along the primary bow. These are called supernumerary bows. Here is a great picture of one taken over New York posted in EarthSky. You can read more about it here. Be sure to check out the link to…
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For those of you who aren’t paying attention, there will be a total solar eclipse passing from west to east over the continental US on August 21. There has been a lot written about this event and many people are planning to go to an area where the sun will be totally hidden by the…
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