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This morning’s Drought Monitor shows a reduction in drought in the panhandle of Florida as well as southern Georgia. Dry conditions were removed from the Georgia coast as well due to plenty of rain. However, extreme drought expanded in northwest South Carolina due to lack of rain there. The latest Drought Outlook, also released today,…
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David Schmidt of our partner blog at Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate has a new blog post out. In it he discusses heat stress on livestock and why old ways of doing things may not be the best choice when new management techniques and technology are available. You can read it at https://animalagclimatechange.org/if-it-aint-broke/.
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A new NOAA-sponsored report shows that unprecedented warming air temperature in 2016 over the Arctic contributed to a record-breaking delay in the fall sea ice freeze-up, leading to extensive melting of Greenland ice sheet and land-based snow cover. The Arctic Report Card, released this week at the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco,…
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According to Nova Next on PBS, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have analyzed soil moisture and snowpack data in the months leading up to the drought and have discovered that they could have been used to make a much earlier drought prediction. If the model can be applied to similar droughts…
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There are a number of concepts in weather and climate that are confusing to the public and even sometimes to scientists in different specialties. Terms like the “polar vortex” are often misused by the media as well, increasing the confusion. Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA has written a post for Forbes.com to explain some of…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub has published their latest newsletter today. It highlights the conference I attended and spoke at last week on Weather & Climate Decision Tools for Farmers, Ranchers & Land Managers Conference. You can view it at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAOCE/bulletins/17639e8.
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NOAA has just released a very nice photo retrospective of the 2016 hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin. The season was considered as “above normal” this year because of the number of storms. Be sure to check it out at https://portal.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=2961a294abf74674a30bd973703c91d3.