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The Southeast Farm Press published a story earlier this week describing the steps that some Georgia farmers are taking to prepare for a future with more demands on water. Competition will come from increased demands from suburban and urban users. Climate models are not able to determine whether rainfall is likely to decrease or increase…
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Here’s an interesting story from Alaska Dispatch News on observing the weather from the United States’ most remote weather station, St. Paul, 300 miles off the west coast of mainland Alaska. It describes the difficulty of launching their twice-daily weather balloons in high winds and how important those observations are for making national weather forecasts.…
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National Geographic is known for their fabulous photographs of scenery, people and infrastructure. In the past week I’ve run across a couple of interesting slide shows from NG that describe the importance of soil on life and how remote sensing by cameras and other instruments can highlight natural and man-made changes in the environment over…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center pointed out on Facebook today that Miami has had its wettest start to December on record. So far this month they have received 8.57 inches of rain. The old record was 4.38 inches set in 1964, followed by 2.70 inches set in 1979. You can produce the complete list at https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?station=MIAthr. One…
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Sometime later this week NOAA should publish the statistics on fall climate for the US. The maps below show the temperature and precipitation departures for the Southeast from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. While temperatures were a bit above normal almost everywhere in the Southeast, the real story is the very wet conditions across…
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Rome Ethredge of Seminole Crop E News pointed out a great blog posting on the South Carolina floods of October 2015 from Extension agent Justin Ballew. In the blog post, Justin provides a video which describes the devastation that the floods caused to SC farms and farmers and provides a link to a Clemson website…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released a blog posting this week describing the history of one of their worst ice storms on record, in December 2002. You can read about how ice storms form and the impacts of this storm at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=168&h=5666e5c1.
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