One of the questions I am sometimes asked about is the effects of changes in sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic on weather in other parts of the world. As you may know, Arctic sea ice has generally been decreasing since the 1970’s, while Antarctic sea ice is increasing,…
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Many of us in the Southeast have been enjoying the unusually warm weather we’ve had for the past few days. In fact, Macon tied their record high of 88 F today (old record was in 1919) and Savannah and Augusta broke their records with 90 F observed today at both locations. This…
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It is approaching the end of the month, and most of Georgia except for the counties along the northern border and a patch in SW Georgia have experienced below normal rainfall, even in a month that is usually the driest month of the year. Parts of east central Georgia have…
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The Southeast Cattle Advisor recently published a newsletter article describing the economic benefits of grazing cool season annual forages as a way to reduce the costs of feeding. You can read the article here. They show that providing cool season annual forage can be a cost-effective way to reduce winter…
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NBC News reported that a new study to be published shortly in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the drought which covered much of the US in 1934 was the worst in 1000 years, based on tree ring records from across the country from 1000 to 2005 as well as modern…
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The 7-day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast is expected to get less than a quarter inch of rain in the next week. Most of that will fall during a cold front passage Tuesday night to Thursday afternoon. Other than the scattered showers associated with the front, conditions…
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A couple of recent publications have noted that the ranges of fish and ragweed are expanding to the north under the influence of warming temperatures on land and in the ocean. CBC News reported on a recent study that tracked the ranges of 802 commercially exploited fish species and noted…
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