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The Capital Weather Gang of the Washington Post had an interesting article earlier this week discussing why the current weather is bringing huge rains to Louisiana and other areas of the central US as well as bringing heat and sweltering weather to the East Coast. The maps in this article are a couple of days…
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You know if you’ve been reading this blog that we missed out on a bunch of rain this week. The lucky winner instead was Louisiana, which had estimated rain totals as much as 30 inches so far, and it is still raining. Here are a couple of stories about the flooding. Steve Hilberg wrote about…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast should get a moderate amount of rain over the next week. Most areas are projected to get about one to one and a half inches. Keep in mind that this is only a forecast. Last week’s forecast was woefully incorrect, as the slowly…
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I’ve seen several stories this week about conditions of some crops across the Southeast and how they relate to the weather. The Packer posted a story about the early start to the North Carolina sweet potato crop harvest. The story notes that yields are expected to be the best they’ve experienced in years due to…
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NOAA released their updated Atlantic hurricane season forecast for 2016 yesterday. NOAA calls for a higher likelihood of a near-normal or above-normal season, and decreases the chance of a below-normal season to only 15 percent, from the initial outlook issued in May. You can read it at https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/atlantic-hurricane-season-still-expected-to-be-strongest-since-2012.
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The Southern Region Extension Forestry folks have posted reminders of two upcoming forestry workshops on their Facebook page today. The Appalachian Wood Energy Innovations conference will be held August 24-26 in Asheville NC. Here’s the description from their event webpage: “Participants attending this event will hear from industry, federal agency and university experts on woody…
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NASA’s Earth Observatory noted recently that this summer has been plagued by oppressive heat at several global locations. Temperatures in Siberia have been so warm that a frozen reindeer carcass infected with anthrax defrosted from the permafrost that had encased it and caused an outbreak that killed one child and over 2300 reindeer. Other areas…
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