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Spring is officially over (climatologically speaking) and now we look forward to summer. I often get asked whether a hot spring means a hot summer, or some other permutation of that question. Often, there is no correlation between seasons. However, in the latest “Beyond the Data” blog entry from Climate.gov, Deke Arndt discusses the impact of a…
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Growing Georgia reported that the Georgia Farm Bureau is expecting a bumper crop of peaches this year. Even though December was very warm, cold temperatures in January and late February brought enough chill hours to get the peach trees ready to bloom, and a feared late frost did not materialize, leading to good production for…
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As the El Niño continues to weaken, colder than normal water is starting to emerge in the eastern Pacific Ocean where unusually warm water previously resided. This is a sign that the El Niño will soon be gone, although the process for declaring it ended usually takes several months to make sure that the event…
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While record-setting rain fell in Savannah, most of Georgia suffered from a lack of rainfall in May. The result: drought expanded across the state, and severe drought was introduced into the northwest corner of the state by the end of the month. Temperatures at most locations were near normal in May. In Atlanta, the monthly…
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The latest climate summary for Florida for May 2016 is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-may-2016.
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If you like rainbows, you are sure to like this beautiful time lapse video of a double rainbow over the Wasatch Mountains in Utah earlier this week. You can view it at the Capital Weather Gang here.
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Early indications in long-term weather forecast models indicate that there is a pretty good chance of a tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico early next week and moving across the Florida panhandle by Tuesday. If this system does develop and reach tropical storm strength, it would be called Colin. Since it is almost…