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The Capital Weather Gang posted an article this morning discussing the torrid temperatures in the Middle East and how they are the hottest ever in the Eastern Hemisphere. Here is a link to their story. Alaska has also received a blast of hot temperatures in the last few weeks. Here is another Capital Weather Gang…
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Clint Thompson of the University of Georgia posted a story this week about the problems the dry conditions are causing for Georgia dryland peanut farmers. He quotes Scott Monford, UGA peanut agronomist as saying that dryland peanut farmers should hold off on doing any chemical treatments until after it rains to see if it is…
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Southeast Farm Press posted an important article today from Alabama Extension about the impacts of drought on nitrate levels in forages. According to the article, “nitrates can accumulate in forages when plants are stressed by low soil moisture, high temperatures or low humidity”. At high levels, these forages can poison the cattle that feed on…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center Outlook is now available on YouTube. It’s about ten minutes long and covers both short and long-term water conditions, including drought, floods, and tropical storms as well as La Niña. You can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzSZAyOFuw&feature=youtu.be. One of the more interesting things in the outlook was the model…
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The latest Drought Monitor shows a slight increase in the area covered by extreme drought in Georgia as well as the development of moderate drought in central Georgia just south of Macon. In other areas of the Southeast, dry conditions remained constant or decreased slightly. Near normal rainfall coupled with above-normal temperatures this week mean…
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The latest 90 day climate outlook was released this week. It shows that above-normal temperatures are likely to continue. Precipitation does not lean one way or the other except along the coast, where above-normal rainfall has the edge. This is most likely due to expected tropical activity in this season with neither an El Niño…
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The latest webinar from the CoCoRaHS network is now available and the Southeast is the star! You can listen to the archived presentation by Dr. Chip Konrad, the head of the Southeast Regional Climate Center, at https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk50. In the webinar Chip discusses both the geographic patterns of climate across the region and trends in extreme weather…