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Several articles out this week described continuing efforts by farmers in southeast Georgia and eastern North Carolina to determine the damage caused by the wind and flooding rain from Hurricane Matthew a few weeks ago. In North Carolina, Modern Farmer reported here that while livestock farmers are starting to compost dead chickens and deal with 3300…
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Have you voted yet? I have! No matter which candidate wins in November, they will face many scientific challenges in the years of their presidency, including impacts from weather and climate. Weather forecasting in the US has fallen behind other nations, and that becomes especially important when short-term disasters like hurricanes or floods threaten. Climate…
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The WunderBlog has a great new article on the heat wave that is dominating weather across much of the US. The author Bob Henson notes that “As a very strong Pacific jet continues to pump mild air into the nation, we could see a few all-time monthly records for November threatened later next week, especially…
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Four years ago today, post-hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast. Sandy started out as a classical late-season hurricane starting in the southwestern Caribbean Sea and crossed the eastern end of Cuba before taking a path east of the Bahamas which paralleled the East Coast of the US before taking an unusual but…
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Friends ask me at church and coworkers ask me at work, when is it going to rain? Unfortunately, the answer for today is “probably not this week.” The latest 7-day QPF map shows a very small chance of rain by late next week, but nothing for the next five days as a strong high pressure…
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The terrible drought that covers most of northern and central Georgia, Alabama and parts of the Carolinas has had many impacts on crops and pastures in the region. Another impact has been on landscaping and turfgrasses. The Center for Urban Agriculture has a new article by Greg Huber on what turf managers need to do…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has published a new 2-page report on the evolution and impacts of the current drought which is affecting parts of the Southeast. You can read it at https://sercc.com/SERCC_drought_report_Oct_2016.pdf.
Posted in: Drought