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For most of the Southeast, the next several days will be dry and sunny, and temperatures should rebound to more seasonal values. For southern parts of the region, whatever rain is likely to come will be late in the week. But our friends in North Carolina and Virginia can’t catch a break, and they will…
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A late-season blizzard last weekend has caused tremendous problems for farmers in Oklahoma and Kansas. According to a story this week in AgWeb, thousands of cattle have died in the storm and many others are starving because of lack of access to food. The story notes that “As much as 75 percent of the U.S.…
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As we edge towards June 1, the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA has provided some information on what innovations they are planning for this year. You can read about them at https://www.noaa.gov/news/what-s-new-in-hurricane-forecasting. The Carolinas Climate list newsletter also noted these upcoming webinars to explain some of their new products: NOAA’s 2017 Hurricane Season Awareness…
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Chris Robbins off iWeatherNet.com posted some information about Friday’s weather on his Facebook page Thursday night for Atlanta/Athens/N. Georgia. He noted that Friday’s high temperatures in places like Atlanta and Athens GA would likely be set overnight as a strong cold front passes through the state, dropping temperatures after it passes. The high temperatures during the…
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Jordan McLeod of the Southeast Regional Climate Center published this climate summary for April 2017: Temperatures were well above average across the Southeast region, with numerous record-breaking extremes observed during April. Mean temperature departures ranged from 5 to as much as 9 degrees F (2.8 to 5.0 degrees C) above average across much of the region…
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The fire that started in the Okefenokee Swamp on April 6 has been steadily moving through the area since then. According to the story, “So far, nearly all of the burning acreage has been confined to the Okefenokee refuge in southeast Georgia, as well as the neighboring Osceola National Forest and John M. Bethea State…
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Heavy rain in the northern part of our region continues to whittle away at drought and abnormally dry conditions, but drought is expanding in the southern half of the region. The area of severe drought in northeast Georgia continues to shrink, but a new area of severe drought has been added to Florida just north…
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