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Creative Loafing, an Atlanta weekly newspaper, published a long story this week about the impacts of severe and extreme weather, like flash flooding and heat waves, on cities. In particular, vulnerable populations like the elderly, children, and lower socioeconomic class folk are especially likely to suffer from this weather, since they often live in areas…
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April 22 was the 47th annual Earth Day, a celebration of the good Earth and a reminder that we need to take care of it. The blog at Weather Underground commemorated the day with a collection of their favorite photos from the past year here.
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the next week should be mostly dry across the Southeast. What little rain does come will hold off until the second half of the week but is not expected to be much. This means that next week’s Drought Monitor is likely to show an expansion of abnormally dry…
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NOAA released their latest seasonal outlooks this week. You can find them all at https://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=13. A sampling of them are shown below. They indicate that El Niño impacts are still likely for the next few months. In summer a band of above-normal precipitation is most likely related to the more active tropical season we are likely…
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In a previous post I noted some of the areas of the world that were feeling the effect of El Niño in contributing to regional droughts. Today I highlight the impact of heavy rains (also affected by El Niño) that are hurting the harvest of crops around the world. According to AgWeb here, “Argentina, the top…
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The latest blog post from the State Climate office of North Carolina highlights a late snowstorm in April 1983 (also a spring following a strong El Niño) that caused immense damage to fruit crops around the state. You can read about it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=187&h=5666e5c1.
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Andy Shirley of Mitchell County in southwest Georgia reported today on his blog that watermelon seedlings are having a hard time developing due to the presence of Pythium, a fungal pathogen that is affecting the roots. He says that they used to see more of it when seeds were directly sown, but now that they…