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The forecast for the Southeast this week shows that a strong low pressure area will bring heavy rain (up to several inches) to a lot of the region starting on Monday night and going into Wednesday in the northeastern part of the region as the storm moves out. On Tuesday a cold front will bring…
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Here is a new app that is available to growers across the United States to help manage insect pests and diseases in a variety of crops. According to their website, “MyIPM has you covered to control and manage diseases and pests in your crops.” Many of the contributors to the development of the app are…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows a lot of rain across the region this coming week. The largest slug of moisture will come in the next three days with a big storm moving through the region. We can expect some severe weather, especially in southern AL and GA and in Florida, along with several inches…
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If you like to play with maps and climate outlooks, you might be interested in this NOAA site from their Physical Sciences lab. It allows you to look at the individual climate anomalies for each EL Nino or La Nina in the period 1991-2020 to see how they varied. It shows both global patterns and…
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Since today is the 12th day of Christmas, I thought I would fit in one more Christmas story before we move into the post-holiday period. This story from Yahoo is not really about weather or climate, but since Christmas trees are produced in the Southeast as an agricultural product, I thought you might be interested.…
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USA Today published a story on New Year’s Day providing a preliminary look at the climate statistics of the world in 2023. While it will be a few more days before the final numbers are in, the results showing that 2023 was the warmest year since official records began in 1880. This was a combination…
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Over the last few weeks I have seen a lot of discussion about the change in the weather pattern that has occurred due to the weakening of the polar vortex over the North Pole. There is a lot of misinformation about what the polar vortex is and how it affects weather and climate in the…