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It’s halfway through March, so let’s look at the climate so far this month. The temperature across the Southeast is much above normal, which is no surprise if you have been basking in the unusually warm temperatures this week. The area that is most above normal is the northern part of the region and extending…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina put out a blog post today with a retrospective of the very snowy month of March 1960. Three Wednesdays in a row received snow in that month due to the influence of a negative North Atlantic Oscillation. The result was the coldest March on record. “By the end…
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If you like to look at maps, you might find this map from the NWS Storm Prediction Center interesting. They have collected all of the severe weather reports from across the US and put them all on one map for 2015. Looking closely at it brings out a lot of questions about why it looks…
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Damon Jones of the Georgia Farm Bureau has a new video story on the peach crop that features Jeff Cook on crop development and me on chill hours. You can view it below or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaP_LG0fH_w.
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While NOAA has not yet released their global temperature data for February (that should be coming soon), other data sets of global temperature from NASA and the University of Alabama at Huntsville both show a large jump in temperature anomalies for February. In fact, the jump is so large that many climatologists were shocked at…
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I was amused to read a story this week in Modern Farmer about ice farming. Once you start reading the article, you realize that it has little to do with conventional farming and everything to do with creating great places to climb ice. You might enjoy reading it too.
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Do you know what to do if you are caught in a flood? The National Weather Service says “Turn around, don’t drown.” Great advice, but sometimes you need more than that. They also provide a web page with more resources for emergency managers and citizens. You can view it at https://www.floodsafety.noaa.gov/index.shtml. Be smart and stay safe!…