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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…
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Farmers adapt to variable weather all the time in managing their farms and crops. Here are a couple of articles I ran across recently which describe two ways that farmers have used to improve their bottom line. Vegetable Growers News published an article on the use of high tunnels by South Carolina producers to extend the…
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The Southeast Farm Press published a story earlier this week discussing the importance of cooperative weather this year for South Carolina peanut farmers. According to their article, “After last year’s historic floods that devastated the state’s peanut crop, South Carolina must have a good crop this year to help recover from last year’s disaster. In…
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NOAA released their latest global climate summary for June 2016 today. It shows that the earth was record-setting warm again, for the 14th month in a row. The sea surface temperatures were also record warm. The January-June totals also show a new record for 2016, far surpassing last year’s record warmth. This makes it virtually…
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As a follow-up to the last posting on the heat dome in the central US, Bob Henson of Weather Underground posted this lengthy article about how a heat spell like the one that is coming can trigger the development of a “flash drought”, in this case most likely in the Corn Belt region, although it…