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The Drought Monitor released this morning shows an expansion of exceptional and extreme drought across northern Georgia and Alabama. Extreme drought also expanded in South Carolina and was introduced into western North Carolina. Moderate drought also now covers almost all of Alabama except for a small area east of Mobile Bay. With almost no rain…
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You may not be aware that there are regular webinars on climate conditions in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin offered to stakeholders in the ACF region. During non-drought periods they are offered once a month but lately because of the drought in parts of the basin, we have been holding them bi-weekly. The next one will…
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The Southeast Farm Press had an excellent slide show on damage to North Carolina farm fields caused by the flooding from Hurricane Matthew here. Many fields were completely submerged, ruining soybeans and cotton as well as other crops. These pictures were taken by Hyde County Extension Agent Andrea Gibbs. She credits helicopter pilot Sid Cayton of…
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Even though we are close to setting high temperature records today in some areas of the Southeast, climatology tells us that winter is coming (either that or Game of Thrones). The Southeast Regional Climate Center posted a link on Facebook today to a snowfall climatology put together by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center which covers…
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I’ve been getting more and more reports of fires around the driest part of Georgia in the last few weeks. Not surprising considering the exceptional drought that has been expanding from the northwest to other parts of the state (with the except of the southeast, which has been well watered by Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew).…
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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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