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I’ve seen quite a few pictures this weekend on my friends’ Facebook accounts showing them decorating Christmas trees for the season. Although I suspect most of them are using artificial trees so far ahead of Christmas, plenty of people still like the smell and look of a live tree in their homes. Here are two…
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The nearly stationary front that has plagued Texas and the central US this weekend is slowly starting to move off to the east. The Southeast should continue to have dry conditions through the weekend, with wet weather gradually returning to the region starting with the northwest corner on Monday evening. By Wednesday the front will…
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Now that you’ve cleaned up the leftovers and gotten your Black Friday shopping done (if you’ve even started), you might have time to enjoy a bit of reading before returning to work on Monday. The New Yorker magazine published this list of the ten best weather events in fiction that you might enjoy. Happy reading!…
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It is probably no surprise to farmers that frost varies widely across their farms, depending on soil type, soil moisture, and elevation. Rome Ethredge discusses this in a Seminole Crop E News blog post from earlier today, including some of my thoughts on local variations. If you are interested in seeing the extent of the last…
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This combined satellite and radar image today shows the moisture streaming northeast from Tropical Storm Sandra into the front draped through Texas and points northeast. Fortunately for the Southeast, most of this moisture will not affect us but could cause flooding in the central US. Sandra is the strongest hurricane to hit so late in…
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The Washington Post had an interesting article this week on how companies use weather predictions and observations to drive their sales of items that are seasonal. So a forecast of snow might cause an increase in ads for snow shovels, skis, and soup. Or a forecast of hot weather might increase sales on ice cream.…
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Most of your Thanksgiving dinners today probably had some type of cranberry sauce. My family goes for the traditional jellied sauce, but growing up, my parents always ground their own fresh sauce with oranges in a food mill. No matter how you like them, you probably don’t know all of these facts about cranberries, including…