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My heart goes out to the folks around the Southeast that have been hit by severe weather the past few days and the families that have lost loved ones. While the threat of the worst weather is mostly over, sooner or later another round will come. Here is an article from US Tornadoes which describes…
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I don’t usually post weather forecasts, but this one is so bad that I want to make sure it is widely seen. VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has placed most of South Georgia and northern Florida as well as southeast Alabama in the HIGH RISK category. Today, you need to stay tuned…
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Today marks the record coldest day in North Carolina, with a record set on Mount Mitchell back on January 21, 1985. Jason Sandford wrote an interesting story about the weather record on that date, which had a high temperature of -4 degrees and a low of -34 F. You can read more about the cold…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that the Southeast is getting and should continue to get quite a bit of rain in the next week. Some areas may get almost 4 inches! Southern Florida will get far less, but since this is their dry season, that is not unexpected. This is likely to cause…
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The CoCoRaHS blog this week has a good description of how recent rains in California have affected the drought there. While northern California is now drought-free, southern California is still in drought, with a few areas even still in exceptional drought. You can read the blog at https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2017/01/no-such-thing-as-free-lunch.html.
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AgWeb reprinted a story from Bloomberg News this week describing some troubling results of a study by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Chicago. The study shows that with the warmer temperatures expected from global warming, yields of corn and soybeans could drop significantly. According to the article,…
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In addition to the story I posted last week about weather on Inauguration Day, here are two more compilations you might enjoy if you are a history buff. Looks like rain for today’s event! At least the odds are 70 to 30 in favor of rain, and historically 43 percent of January 20’s have had…
Posted in: History