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  • New SERCH newsletter available

    Pam Knox

    December 2, 2015

    The Southeast Regional Climate Hub’s latest newsletter is now available here.  It includes a number of meeting announcements, updates, and short articles, including one on managing swine in an El Niño year.  Check it out!

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Livestock
  • Florida climate summary now available

    Pam Knox

    December 1, 2015

    The November 2015 issue of the Florida climate summary is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-november-2015.

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • “A Warm, Wet November Concludes NC’s Wettest Fall”

    Pam Knox

    December 1, 2015

    The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their monthly and seasonal climate summary for North Carolina for November 2015.  You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=167&h=5666e5c1.

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • 2015 Atlantic hurricane season summary from NHC

    Pam Knox

    December 1, 2015

    From the National Hurricane Center Facebook page this morning: “Here’s the preliminary track map of the tropical cyclones that occurred over the Atlantic basin in 2015. There were 11 named storms formed, four became hurricanes, and two of those reached major hurricane status. There was also one unnamed tropical depression. While the number of named…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate summaries, Tropical weather
  • Where do cloud names come from?

    Pam Knox

    December 1, 2015

    Steve Hilberg has an interesting post on the CoCoRaHS blog this week about the history of how clouds acquired their names (like cirrus, cumulus, etc.) and the man that classified them.  You can read it here. If you like pictures of clouds, you can find many at the Cloud Appreciation Society website, https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Outlook for December: Wet and warm

    Pam Knox

    November 30, 2015

    The latest climate outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is out and shows that for the Southeast, December looks like it has a good chance to continue to be wetter and warmer than normal.  Most long-range models show that we are not likely to feel the impacts of Arctic air anytime soon, although a change…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
  • What does a 40 percent chance of rain mean?

    Pam Knox

    November 30, 2015

    With our rain chances on the rise for the next few days, you might have heard your local forecaster talk about the probability of precipitation or PoP.  But what does a 40% chance of rain really mean?  It turns out that not even meteorologists agree on a definition.  Check out Dr. Marshall Shepherd’s blog from…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Uncategorized
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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