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My friend Bob Kemerait wrote an article this week for Southeast Farm Press that describes how El Nino may affect your planting plans next growing season. He quoted me in it, so you might be interested in reading it. The important thing to keep in mind is that even though El Nino is currently occurring…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued their latest ENSO forecast earlier this week. As expected, it continues to show that the current El Nino is strong and is likely to continue through late spring before swinging back to neutral conditions. You can read their discussion at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml. You might also be interested in reading the latest…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the southern half of the region should get a lot of rain this week, especially mid-week. Northern parts of the region will see much less precipitation and a lot of Virginia should get none at all. This should improve drought conditions where the rain falls, but drought may…
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Drought conditions expanded across the region this week, with extreme (D3) drought added to areas of Virginia and South Carolina. The biggest change was the addition of exceptional (D4) drought in northwest GA and northeast Al due to complete lack of rain combined with warm temperatures over most of the last month. It has not…
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The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River Basin are currently experiencing drought conditions and impacts. This webinar will provide an overview of current climate and drought status, information on streamflow and water levels, perspectives from the state level, and a look at what can be expected in the future. Presentations will include: ACF Basin Drought…
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The latest monthly climate report for October 2023 was released by NOAA earlier this week. It shows that for the US as a whole, a lot of the country was pretty close to normal, with the exception of the Northeast and Southwest. There was even an area below normal in southeastern Montana. The precipitation percent…
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In the past few weeks I’ve been getting phone calls from cattle producers in NW Georgia and NE Alabama to complain about the Drought Monitor depiction in their area. Many of these counties have not seen much if any rain in weeks, and with the higher than normal temperatures we are experiencing, their soils are…