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WABE radio reported today that Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division has officially declared a Level 1 drought for Atlanta and northern Georgia, 53 counties in all. While the Drought Monitor has shown drought in this area for several months, conditions have lingered and impacts have become severe enough for the State to make an official drought declaration.…
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High Country News had a fascinating article this week about one of the longest-serving National Weather Service cooperative observers. Anna Mae Wright is a farmer who has been taking daily weather observations since the late 1940s in Redrock, New Mexico, which means she has been observing for seven decades. The NWS has depended on faithful…
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In today’s somewhat surprising climate news, NOAA announced that they are canceling the La Niña watch that has been in place for several months. While colder than normal conditions have been seen in the Eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator for a while, they have not been strong enough for long enough to constitute an…
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As expected, the passage of Hurricane and then Tropical Storm Hermine across northern Florida and southeastern Georgia and the coastal Carolinas eliminated many abnormally dry areas and reduced drought in those regions. However, in other parts of the Southeast, drought conditions generally remained the same as last week. Since precipitation amounts are expected to be…
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AgWeb reported that fears about damage to the citrus industry from Hurricane Hermine caused futures prices of orange juice to rise in advance of the storm’s landfall. Florida is the second biggest orange juice production region after Brazil. Cotton futures also rose as flooding was expected in areas with significant cotton production. You can read…
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The latest summary for Florida’s climate for August 2016 is now available. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-august-2016.
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Phenology is the study of natural systems and how they change over the course of the year and from one year to the next. Things that are marked by phenologists include the first robin of the year, the first leaf on a tree or shrub each spring, the first wave of geese traveling south for…