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Several of my Facebook friends posted this MODIS satellite image of the smoke in northern Georgia today. Spectacular and troubling! All of the smoke from several fires is blending to create significant haze across the area. The smoke has caused problems with visibility on highways and respiratory issues for people with asthma and other lung…
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Jim Angel, the Illinois State Climatologist, has a short summary of climate conditions across the US so far this month that you might find informative. It shows that for most of the country including the Southeast, temperatures have been above normal and precipitation very low compared to average. You can find it at https://climateillinois.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/november-warm-and-dry-across-us/ .
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Clint Thompson of the University of Georgia wrote an article last week discussing Georgia’s current drought and the outlook for this winter and next year. It quotes heavily from me but also provides insight from other UGA extension specialists and agents. Here is the article as printed in Growing Georgia today.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is offering a three-part series on the outlook for the upcoming winter. This week’s post is on forecasts based on folklore like woolly worm caterpillars and the two Farmers’ Almanacs. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=219&h=5666e5c1.
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In addition to terrible effects on livestock, crops and farmers, floods can affect many other things as well. I was interested to read this story about how a famous painting in Florence, Italy, has been restored and redisplayed at its museum 50 years after it was damaged by a strong flood. You can read about…
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We’ve had enough visits to other planets and moons to allow us to look at their faces over time. This allows us to see things like the movement of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter (a very large storm) and the impact of a comet, also on Jupiter. Here is a link to an article…
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Weather Underground notes that it is not too late for a tropical storm or even a hurricane to affect the Atlantic basin this year in a blog post today at https://www.wunderground.com/news/november-hurricane-keep-your-hurricane-kits-available?__prclt=yyRexmVE. While the tropics are less active towards the end of the season, we can still have occasional storms. At the moment the National Hurricane…
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