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Here is a nice snapshot summary of how agriculture impacts climate and how farmers are working to improve agricultural management practices to lead the way towards an improved future from Environment Reports. This one should be viewable from a smartphone. You can view it at https://www.environmentreports.com/how-does-agriculture-change/.
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The rampant wildfires that have been affecting the Southeast over the last month have caused a lot of heartache. Certainly some of the blame for the wildfires can be put on the exceptional drought that is occurring over the region (which may in turn be partly linked to the weak La Niña occurring now), and…
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The new outlook for December was released by the Climate Prediction Center yesterday. It shows that December has equal chances of being near normal, above or below normal except for southern Florida where there is an edge to above-normal temperatures. The lack of a strong signal is due to the expected cold outbreak that should…
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According to a new study, meteorologists are the least creepy people on earth. As a meteorologist myself, I’m relieved to hear that. Of course, most people only know meteorologists because of their television work, which is actually a small percentage of jobs that meteorologists do. You can read more about this in a lighthearted story…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has just issued their monthly climate summary for November 2016. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=222&h=5666e5c1.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows only very slight changes in drought status across the Southeast from last week, mostly in Alabama, Georgia and western Florida. The changes are most likely due to rain which finally fell after weeks of dry weather in the last few days, just before the end of the…
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Today is not only the last day of meteorological fall but is also the last day of the Atlantic tropical season. For the Atlantic, this was the first above-normal season since 2012. The Atlantic saw 15 named storms during 2016, including 7 hurricanes (Alex, Earl, Gaston, Hermine, Matthew, Nicole, and Otto), 3 of which were…
Posted in: Tropical weather