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NOAA’s latest global climate summary for September 2016 was released today. It shows that September was the second warmest on record for the globe, just slightly cooler than 2015 when El Niño was growing in the Pacific Ocean. This breaks the string of consecutive months that set records for high temperature. The year to date…
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AgWeb posted an article this morning quoting a market watcher (whose name I won’t give because I don’t want to give him free advertising) saying that he wouldn’t be surprised if NOAA was putting out a La Niña watch to boost crop prices before the election. This shows a real misunderstanding of how NOAA employees…
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Do you love weather and climate? Do you want to more about it? If so, you won’t want to miss this CoCoRaHS week’s webinar on the COMET program. It’s being held Thursday October 20 at 1 pm EDT. According to the blurb, “The award-winning COMET Program has produced over 800 hours of online lessons in…
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a story this weekend about the extreme drought in Haralson County, 35 miles west of Atlanta on the border with Alabama. The Tallapoosa River there is so low (second lowest on record) that it is now below the intake to their water plant. I’ve heard reports that the river looks like…
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This morning Growing Georgia posted a lengthy story from Growing America on updated state by state assessments of damages to agriculture caused by Hurricane Matthew. You can read the article here. In many states, damage was bad but less than expected, while in North and South Carolina the damages from heavy rainfall in particular has caused…
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Yale Climate Connections has a new 6-minute video on the importance of sea ice to global climate. If you would like to know more about the connections between Arctic conditions and what is happening here in the Southeast and in other parts of the globe, check it out at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/10/sea-ice-video-addresses-key-questions/.
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You may have heard television meteorologists talk about the diurnal cycle in temperature in the past, and I thought I would spend a few minutes to discuss it and how the current drought is affecting the diurnal cycle in some parts of the Southeast. I am using an example from Rome GA, which is in…