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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you can’t help but have noticed the unusually warm spring we are experiencing in the Southeast so far this year (and even then, the rock would probably be getting warm!). Observations from the National Phenology Network indicate that we are running 3-4 weeks ahead of normal based on…
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NASA posted a new photo of fires that are burning around the Southeast. Many of these fires are prescribed burns for people clearing land in preparation for field work. Others are wildfires which have grown due to recent dry conditions. You can read about the latest photo and view it at https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/fires-in-southeast-united-states-both-wild-and-prescribed.
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Today is a good day to remind folk that the Midwestern Regional Climate Center has a number of freeze map products available at their VIP site (Vegetation Impact Program). The site has national maps for a number of different parameters like median date of last spring frost (you choose 32 F or 28 F). Check…
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Since it’s been so warm, I’ve been getting questions about the likelihood of seeing more snow before this winter season ends. I haven’t had time to do the statistics yet, but I ran across this older article from the NWS in Birmingham discussing the chances of getting snow in Alabama after a warm February that…
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From my Facebook feed from Marshall Shepherd: “Here is one of many examples of how warming winters and earlier warming impact you. UGA geology professor Steven Holland has been tracking emergence of pollen in Athens since 2013. Note that it has gotten earlier and earlier. Already appearing in Feb 2017. Geez. Now, we cannot draw…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that coastal areas of the Southeast, including most of Florida, will be relatively dry this week, but that the more northern sections, which are also the driest, will receive heavier rain. This may provide some relief to the drought which has been slowly expanding for the last couple of…
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Okay, I admit it. I put this in the blog partly just because this little guy is so cute. But the story that NOAA tells about packrats like this one is important because it shows one way that climatologists determine what the climate was like as much as ten thousand years ago. Packrats, NOAA tells…