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“Will he or won’t he?” A question I’ve been getting a lot lately is whether or not we are headed into our next El Niño. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, if we have either an El Niño or the opposite La Niña, statistically we have some idea of what climate conditions to expect during…
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Today’s Drought Monitor shows a mixed bag of drought trends across the region. While dry conditions were reduced or removed from southern Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia and the area of extreme drought in northeast Georgia shrunk still further due to recent rains, two areas of extreme drought appeared in southern Georgia and the area of…
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While scientific studies on the relationship between weather and human health vary, from anecdotal evidence I have heard from friends and colleagues, I think there is a pretty clear relationship for at least some people between how the weather is changing from day to day and how they feel. This article from The Path magazine…
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According to The Packer, “U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has signed a declaration of disaster for areas in Georgia and Florida for crops affected by a mid-March freeze. The declaration enables growers in affected counties to apply for low-interest loans to help them recover from crop losses.” Many areas of Georgia lost 75% or more…
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A new Michigan State University study looks at the impacts of living on a mobile home on tornado safety. Of all of the tornado-related deaths that have occurred so far this year, 63% were in mobile homes. And the South is prime territory for mobile home residence, due to a combination of zoning and poverty…
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The latest blog post from Steve Hilberg of CoCoRaHS discusses the heavy rain that has fallen in the Midwest, hindering farmers there who are trying to plant their summer crops as well as causing damage to infrastructure around the area. You can read it at https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2017/05/april-showers-bring-some-flowers-and.html.
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The University of Wisconsin Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences just posted their latest photo contest results at https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/news/articles/9998. Take a look at all of the great weather photos from this year’s competition.
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