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  • What the new La Niña Watch means for the Northern Hemisphere growing season

    Pam Knox

    February 25, 2024

    Cross-posted from The Garden Professors blog (https://gardenprofessors.com/) In this blog I’ve talked several times about El Niño and La Niña and how they affect climate across the Northern Hemisphere as well as their impacts on the rest of the world. We are currently in a strong El Niño with sea surface temperatures in the Eastern…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks, El Nino and La Nina
  • Showers this week

    Pam Knox

    February 24, 2024

    The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most areas of the Southeast will see some rain this week but most areas will only see showers, not significant amounts. A system moving out of the northern region today is bringing a little snow to higher elevations and some rain to NC and VA. Midweek, the northern…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
  • Ocean Temperatures Keep Shattering Records—and Stunning Scientists

    Pam Knox

    February 22, 2024

    My tropical meteorology scientist colleagues have been watching the sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean lately and have been stunned at how warm they are compared to normal. In some areas, the temperatures are at more than 4 standard deviations away from average conditions, which is just mind-blowing in how unusual this is. That…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Coastal, Tropical weather
  • The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season List Includes Two New Names (with video)

    Pam Knox

    February 22, 2024

    With the 2024 hurricane season coming up, here is an article and video from the Weather Channel describing the list of names for this year. The list is basically the same as the 2018 list (they repeat every 7 years) but with Francine replacing Florence and Milton replacing Michael. Both of the retired storms caused…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • The most extreme blizzards in history

    Pam Knox

    February 22, 2024

    There has not been much snow in a lot of the Southeast this year in spite of plenty of precipitation because the temperatures have just been too warm when the moisture was in place. So you might enjoy reading about some of the most extreme blizzards that have occurred in history, including a couple that…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, History
  • Abnormally dry conditions appear in eastern NC

    Pam Knox

    February 22, 2024

    The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that abnormally dry (D0) conditions have been added back to eastern sections of North Carolina this week due to lack of rain and warm temperatures. The rest of the region, including Puerto Rico, did not see any changes this week. The only area still in drought is a…

    Posted in: Drought
  • MRCC: Maps of chill hour accumulations available nationwide

    Pam Knox

    February 20, 2024

    If you are a fruit farmer or someone else who needs to access chill (or chilling) hours for your crops, here is a new resource that may be of use to you. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has produced some national maps that allow you to get calculated chilling hours for airport stations across the…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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