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The Southeast Farm Press reported today that the official pack date for Vidalia onions is earlier than usual this year due to the warm weather that has been occurring across the eastern US. The official pack date this year has been set for April 12; Vidalia onions cannot be packed or sold prior to the this date.…
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Reuters and other news agencies noted that an Argentine research station on the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula set a new continental record high of 63.5 F on March 24, 2015, but said that the data was not officially recognized until it was recently reviewed, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The heat record for…
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NOAA has a web page available which contains a variety of resources on spring safety. You can access it at https://www.weather.gov/wrn/spring-safety. It includes information on preparing a spring emergency kit, high surf, lightning safety, and other related topics.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has issued their latest monthly climate summary for February 2017. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=227&h=5666e5c1.
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From Jared Rackley, former UGA graduate student and now working for the NWS in Louisiana: Still think the Farmers’ Almanac is reliable? How did that “Penetrating Cold and Very Wet” winter work out for you? As March begins, meteorological winter (Dec.-Feb.) comes to an end. This winter was not only unseasonably warm across much of…
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March 1 marks the beginning of spring for climatologists–if you’re an astronomer, you will have to wait until later this month. Dr. Marshall Shepherd describes why we use March 1 as the start of spring in his Forbes.com blog here. Wednesday will feel like spring across the Southeast, including a chance for severe weather, so…
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The WunderBlog has an excellent retrospective of the last several years of the drought in California and how the last very wet season has knocked out the drought in a lot of the state. But they do note that even with all of the rain, it will take a long time for the aquifers to…