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Recently Athens received two new WeatherSTEM weather stations, one on the main UGA campus atop the Geography building and one at the State Botanical Gardens. Other locations around the Southeast have also received similar stations, and more are scheduled to go in. One of the products that WeatherSTEM puts out is a set of basic…
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You may be tired of all the heat we’ve experienced over the summer and looking forward to cooler weather. While I don’t think we are going to see any early season snow storms this year, you might enjoy reading about some of the earliest major fall snow storms that the US has experienced. You can…
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The Southeast Farm Press reported this week that the peanut harvest in South Carolina is underway and that yields this year have been affected by pests and weather. Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus has been more prevalent this year than in previous years, and SC extension agents attribute that in part to the relatively mild winter…
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Around midnight on September 22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo came ashore near Charleston SC and moved rapidly inland. I flew through Charlotte just a day after Hugo moved through and was amazed at the damage in the area I saw from the air and how red the rivers were running with all the eroded clay soils…
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I don’t usually post obituaries on this blog, but wanted to mention the passing of Dr. Jim O’Brien, retired from Florida State University. Dr. O’Brien worked for over 40 years studying climate variability and its impacts on the Southeast. He helped found COAPS at FSU and served for a time as the Florida State Climatologist.…
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The Drought Monitor released this morning shows that extreme drought (D3) has expanded from 7.4 percent of the state’s area to over 11 percent in the last week. Most of the expansion occurred in counties to the southeast of the Atlanta metro area, although there was also some expansion in the far northwest. The northwestern…
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While climatologists celebrated the return to autumn several weeks ago, the rest of the world is celebrating the start of astronomical fall today at 10:21 am EDT. Here are some stories about the autumnal equinox and the migration of birds. Enjoy those cooler temperatures soon! EarthSky: All you need to know about the September equinox…