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The April 2016 climate summary is now available for North Carolina. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=188&h=5666e5c1.
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Preliminary statistics from the High Plains Regional Climate Center indicate that the majority of the Southeast was above normal in temperature, although areas in the eastern Carolinas and a band of southern Georgia were cooler than normal. Precipitation was variable across the region, with wet conditions stretching from central and southern Alabama east into parts…
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Clint Thompson of UGA posted a story on this year’s water melon crop which was picked up by Online Athens. According to his story, seedlings were ahead of normal development this spring in spite of rainy weather, and many field were planted early, but some growth was further delayed due to cool, rainy weather later…
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Smithsonian had an interesting article this week on a long-term source of proxy climate data that was collected by Japanese priests monitoring the ice conditions on Lake Suwa. As the lake froze each year, the priests recorded the time of development and the orientation of a ridge of ice that built up as the lake…
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I stopped at Providence Canyon State Park near Lumpkin GA on my way home from a school field day in Cuthbert GA on Friday. The park is located south of Columbus on the west-central edge of the state. It is now billed as one of Georgia’s seven natural wonders, with layers of pink and white…
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The latest WunderBlog from Jeff Masters discusses something that I have not heard of before: food system shock. His blog started out this way: “The greatest threat of climate change to civilization over the next 40 years is likely to be climate change-amplified extreme droughts and floods hitting multiple major global grain-producing “breadbaskets” simultaneously. A…
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This Day in Weather History on Facebook noted the April 30th F4 tornado which hit central Georgia in 1953. It was 300 yards in width and leveled homes on the north side of Warner Robins, Georgia, as well as barracks on the south side of the Robins Air Force Base. The tornado killed 19 people…