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The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences announced the development of a new app-based tool to help tell farmers when severe weather might impact their crops. According to an article in the Southeast Farm Press, the tool will inform farmers about the potential for extreme weather such as severe heat or dry spells…
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When farmers are looking for feed for their cattle due to drought or other shortages, they use a variety of products to supplement their feed. I was interested to read this story about a spilled truck full of red Skittles that was on its way to be ground up and used as a cattle feed…
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GOES 16, formerly known as GOES R, has sent its first pictures back from space, and they are great! This is the first in a series of new and better geostationary satellites that will be helping NOAA to monitor and predict weather, including severe weather outbreaks. You can see the pictures and read more about…
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A very tight low pressure center is located in the far northwest corner of Georgia tonight. The pressure of the storm in the center near Dalton GA was 981.2 millibars or 28.97 inches of mercury. This would be one of the lowest pressures ever reported in a non-tropical storm in Georgia and may set the…
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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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