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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…
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The latest Florida climate summary for January 2017 has been posted at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=505. In addition, their annual climate summary for 2016 is also available. You can find that at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/docs/Fla_annual_climate_summary_2016.pdf.
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The latest Drought Monitor released this morning shows no changes in the drought status across the Southeast from last week’s map. It’s not unusual after a big rain event followed by a dry week for the DM authors to take time to catch their breath, work on other areas of the country, and wait to…
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The latest Southern Regional Extension Forestry newsletter has been released, and it provides information on a number of opportunities for forest-related webinars, grants and some new experts that are available to help with forestry issues around the region. There’s also a new snake identification website which is discussed in the newsletter. You can read it…
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Today is Groundhog Day (or Candlemas Day, depending on which calendar you use). News outlets across the US are reporting on whether we are going to have six more weeks of winter or if spring will come early based on the shadow of a marmot. All while the flowering plum trees here in Athens in…