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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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I was pleased to meet with the ANR extension agents in Southeast Georgia today in Brunswick and talk to them about sources of weather and climate information. I mentioned fact sheets on Southeast climate but did not provide the web link, so here it is: https://agroclimate.org/fact-sheets-climate.php. If you are interested in producing similar fact sheets for…