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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.
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Here’s something you don’t see every day! A cloud layer passing over downtown Chicago was so low that it was affected by the John Hancock building. What’s going on? You can read an explanation of how clouds and surface features interact from Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA in his blog post at Forbes.com here.
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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…
Posted in: Drought