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At halfway through the month, the preliminary climate statistics maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that temperatures in many parts of the region are running a little below normal. If this continues, Georgia will see its first below-normal month since January 2016. But with temperatures expected to be above-normal this week, we…
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I grew up looking at National Geographic magazine and loved their photography. Here is their latest collection of beautiful landscape pictures. Of course many of them include great weather as well! You can view these 43 pictures here.
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Have you ever heard that tornadoes don’t hit cities, or rivers, or hills? While local geographic features can have a small impact on tornadoes, this week’s anniversary of the Miami tornado of May 12, 1997 is a good example of how wrong that “old wives’ tale” is. Of course, here in the Southeast we have…
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WSB-TV produced a story earlier this week noting that this year the first reported poisonous snakebite of the year happened in the first week of January, which was a record according to Dr. Gaylord Lopez of the Georgia Poison Control Center. He attributed the large number of calls so early in the year to the lack…
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The system moving through the Southeast today will bring some rain to the area, particularly those areas in south Georgia and Florida that have been seeing an expansion of drought in recent weeks. After that, the week looks like it will be dry across the region, with sunny skies and warm temperatures. That won’t do…
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I’ve always loved watching waves, first on Lake Michigan and then on the ocean. The atmosphere is full of waves, too, which are easy to see if you use time-lapse photography. Here is an amazing set of cinemagraphs created from thousands of still pictures of ocean waves by Australian photographer Ray Collins and animated by…
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Bryant Wynes of The Packer has a good short summary of agricultural impacts of the March freeze and the warm winter on Georgia agriculture, including some of the expected impacts on yield. You can read it here.