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Even though astronomers use the autumnal equinox as the marker for the official start of fall, climatologists use September 1. Historically it made calculations a lot easier and better represents the transition from the three hottest months to the cooler fall. And just in time comes some cooler weather, which you should see in the…
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Apologies to those readers who are not in the Southeast–one last blog post on TS Hermine. The 11 pm outlook for Hermine shows that the storm has strengthened somewhat over the evening and is now expected to come ashore as a hurricane. The path has shifted ever so slightly to the east due to the latest…
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AgWeb had an interesting story today on how some farmers are finding meteors in their fields as rocks rise to the surface each year under the influence of repeated frosts. If they are big, they can be sold to a collector or donated to a local museum. You can read about it here.
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One of the amazing things about this summer (to me) has been the unrelenting nature of the heat this year. We’ve had very few days over 100 F and most days were nowhere near a record temperature for the date, but the number of runs of days above thresholds like 90 F for max temperatures…
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The 5 pm forecast from the National Hurricane Center shows a significant shift of the forecast cone to the west from earlier in the day. It puts the center of the track just southeast of Macon at 1 pm on Friday. The cone itself covers the southeastern 2/3 of Georgia, so anyone driving through that…
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The latest update from the National Hurricane Center on Tropical Depression 9 shows that with its slow movement and development, it has not yet begun to move towards the northeast. This means that the updated most likely path has now moved north and west of its position earlier today. Most of the southeastern half of…
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August is almost over, and a look at the temperature departures for the Southeast help explain why drought has been expanding across central and southern Georgia. Most of northern Georgia has been fairly close to normal in precipitation, but the southern half of Georgia and particularly along the coast has been quite dry. Combined with the…