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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…
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For those of us in weather and climate, today is the last day of fall. While the final statistics are not in yet (we still have today to get through), here’s a peek at the fall climate statistics. The precipitation map, as expected shows the split between the wet coastal areas hit by Hermine, Julia…
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You’ve seen posts here and read in other places the effects of the wildfires that have caused devastation in Gatlinburg TN and in other places around the Southeast US. But did you know that a similar situation is occurring in Israel as well? Fires there were threatening Haifa, Israel’s third largest city and over 60,000…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week by Eddie McGriff of Alabama Extension discussing how good the cotton yields for both irrigated and dryland fields in Alabama this year. This in spite of the drought that has deepened over the area over the last few months. Eddie noted that “We, in Alabama and…