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You might remember the chaos caused by Hurricane Floyd traveling up the East Coast. From the Facebook page for “This Day in Weather History”: September 12th, 1999 – Hurricane Floyd, a Category 4 storm with top winds of 145 mph, was making residents along the U.S. East Coast very nervous as it steamed steadily westward.…
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Now that cooler temperatures have finally returned to the Southeast, it is time to think about fall and the change of colors. There are a number of websites available to help you find times and places to see peak colors. Country Living highlighted a map which shows how peak color moves from north to south…
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Traditional methods of rice production, include transplanting rice seedlings into water-filled rice paddies, damages the soil and releases large quantities of methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas which is contributing to recent warming of the earth’s climate. It is estimated that rice production produces 20% of all man-made sources of methane. A recent study published…
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Fifteen years ago a tragedy unfolded in clear skies over New York City and Washington DC. What you might not remember is that Hurricane Erin was to the east of the Northwest on that date. If it had followed a different path, history might have been quite different. You can read about the impacts of…
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High above the surface near the equator is a band of strong winds which alternate between westerly and easterly flow on a regular cycle. Surprisingly, the cycle is not tied to the calendar year but switches between phases in a 28-month period. I’ve put a graph of the oscillation, which is called the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation…
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Here is an excellent site I ran across today that explains the basics of how climate models work in clear language from a reputable scientific source. If you would like to know more about how they work, check out https://nas-sites.org/climate-change/climatemodeling/.
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The latest 7-day QPF forecast shows that for most inland parts of the Southeast, rainfall in the next week will be less than half an inch, well below normal even for this dry time of year. Jeff Cook, extension agent in central Georgia, points out in his Three Rivers Ag blog that the dry conditions…