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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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The latest 7-day QPF shows that little rain is expected for the Southeast in the next week. The only exception is very far southern Florida and the area right along the East Coast. By comparison, look at the Pacific Northwest, where amounts of more than 20 inches are expected in some locations. Where would you…
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The Packer reported today that Florida’s strawberry harvest began this year in early November, considerably earlier than its usual start in late November. This is due in large part to the unusually warm temperatures that were seen in October and November, hastening the ripening of the berries and allowing growers to start picking sooner than…
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This is the International Year of Soils. A number of stories have been written about the importance of healthy soils in stabilizing climate and improving yields of crops. University of Tennessee at Knoxville scientists recently released a study showing that the soil in the region encompassing the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s is still degraded,…
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Now that we are getting into the colder months, you can expect to see more atmospheric optical effects related to ice crystals high up in the sky, although it’s so cold up there that some of them can occur any time of year. One of the most common and spectacular of these is the halo,…