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The fine folks at the NWS Southeast River Forecast Center have put out a new Water Resources Outlook video covering what they expect to happen over the next few months. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJoE7lLh8w&feature=youtu.be.
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The World Meteorological Organization recently published a list of the world’s deadliest storms. None of these storms has occurred since 1994, which means that weather services around the world are likely improving their ability to predict and warn for these storms. In addition, vulnerability of people in the most susceptible areas has been reduced by…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while most areas of the Southeast had no changes in their drought conditions, there was an expansion of the extreme drought that is currently plaguing central Florida. Another area of extreme drought in southeast Georgia expanded east to include coastal areas, including a small strip of…
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about the adverse effects of the dry conditions in parts of Florida on vegetable production there. The warm winter allowed whiteflies and other pests to overwinter and they are now causing a tremendous challenge for tomato farmers. You can read the story at https://vscnews.com/southwest-florida-struggles-whiteflies-drought/.
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Here is a lengthy (67 pages!) web site which provides a thorough background on the science of climate, from Andrew Revkin. He describes it as “a primer based on decades of reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, IPCC and other peer-reviewed lit.” You can view the web site at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3680541-Climate101.html. You might…
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If you like time lapse cloud pictures like I do, and would like to live vicariously by visiting the Grand Canyon on video (I haven’t been there yet but hope to someday), you will love this 3-minute video of a rare cloud inversion, where clouds fill the bowl of the canyon. You can read about…
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NOAA released their latest monthly summary of climate for the US in April 2017 yesterday. It shows that for the US as a whole, it was the second wettest and the 11th warmest April since records began in 1895. It was the second warmest year to date and the 5th wettest. You can read more…
Posted in: Climate summaries