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Happy National Weatherperson’s Day, held on the birthday of John Jeffries, who started taking daily weather measurements in 1774 and is recognized as one of the first weather observers. Sending our best wishes to our meteorology friends at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), American Meteorological Society, U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), and all the…
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While the Pacific Northwest gets blasted with another wet weather system, in the Southeast we are expecting mostly dry conditions over the next seven days. Almost all areas will receive less than half an inch, which will be great for farmers hoping to get field work done. The only exception is the far northern sections…
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Alabama Extension now has a new website devoted to information about drought in the region as well as methods that farmers can use to deal with the impacts of drought on their livestock and crops. You can visit it at https://drought.aces.edu/.
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Because of this year’s warm weather throughout the winter months, the accumulated chill hours that we have seen this year are even lower than last year’s values, and is only about 50% of what we usually expect by this time of year. If we use previous years of weather data to project the range of…
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Last month NOAA’s Climate.gov posted a story following the release of the 2016 global average temperature, discussing how unusual this event was. Jessica Blunden, the author, discussed the impact of El Niño on temperature records in general and specifically on the record-setting global temperatures this year. She also provided an outlook for 2017. You can…
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Don Paul, a television meteorologist from Buffalo NY that I follow on Facebook, has an excellent description of why sea levels are rising and the consequences of both rising sea levels and subsidence of land on coastal cities and ecosystems. You can read it at https://buffalonews.com/2017/02/03/don-paul-ominous-duo-rising-seas-sinking-land/.
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Above-normal temperatures covered Georgia again in January 2017, with values ranging from three to more than ten degrees above average. This is the 12th month in a row with above-normal temperatures for the state as a whole. In fact, nearly all of the eastern half of the US was well above normal, with colder air…
Posted in: Climate summaries