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The latest Florida monthly summary for April 2017 is now available from the Florida Climate Center. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=509.
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At a meeting today I was reminded that there are a number of smartphone apps designed to help farmers with irrigation planning available from the University of Florida IFAS, USA NIFA and the University of Georgia. While these started in the Southeast, some of them are now expanding to other parts of the country based…
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The Southeast Farm Press had an interesting story this week about the South Carolina Water Resources Summit meeting held recently at Clemson University. In the story it describes the recent climate patterns in SC, including the lurch from floods in October 2015 to drought in 2016 followed by another 1000 year flood when Matthew moved…
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The Florida Climate Institute noted in their newsletter today that a recent article published in Science shows how much land and ocean species are moving away from the equator due to a warming climate. The summary paper is based on a February 2016 conference on “Species on the Move” which gathered about 350 international scientists…
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Today is the launch of the website Convergence! The development was led by CISA’s Climate Integration and Outreach Associate, Ashley Ward. The website is a collaboration among scientists and stakeholders to identify and address the impact of extreme climate events on communities in the Carolinas. The convergence of communities and researchers to share knowledge and skills and…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their monthly summary for April 2017 this morning. It shows that NC had the warmest April and the second wettest April on record! You can read all about it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=233&h=5666e5c1.
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April is winding down, and while the final results are not yet in, it looks like the month as a whole will be well above normal across the Southeast. This means that for every month from February 2016 on, we have been above the 1981-2010 normals in temperature. At the same time, precipitation was above…