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The Florida Climate Center has released their monthly climate summary for December 2016. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=504.
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This morning’s Drought Monitor shows a significant improvement in drought conditions in Alabama and northern Georgia as recent rains have brought relief to many areas. All of the D4 exceptional drought is now gone, and areas of extreme, severe and moderate drought have all been reduced. Drought conditions in southern Georgia and in Florida have…
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The Packer reported this week that Florida strawberries are doing much better than a year ago, when extremely high temperatures hurt production levels. This year, while still warm, is closer to normal values, and the strawberries are producing much better. Market prices are still being hurt by competition from Mexico and California, however, so farmers…
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December 2016 was once again much hotter than normal across the state, with some areas over six degrees above normal. Rainfall was highly variable this month, with the northern half of the state quite dry while much of the southern half was inundated with heavy rain, particularly on December 4 to 6. In Atlanta, the…
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I saw this article posted on Facebook by a friend earlier this week. You might enjoy it. Be sure to read it all the way to the end and then back again. The cleverly-written article was written by Michael Liebrich and is entitled “It’s a new year and time to face reality“. I’m reproducing this…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their latest climate summary, for December 2016. It also contains an update on La Nina. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=224&h=5666e5c1.
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In view of the chance of snow or ice in parts of the Southeast this weekend, the Weather Channel has posted a story describing what you need to get snow or ice in the Southeast and why it’s so hard to predict. Snow in most of the Southeast (except for Florida and immediately along the…