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If you like to eat pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, or other goodies that require canned pumpkin, you might want to stock up early this year. Unusually wet conditions have caused a significant decline in the production of pumpkins in Illinois, which produces 90% of the canned pumpkin in the US. Prices are already starting to…
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I want to recognize Mr. Willis Swint of Jonesboro GA this week for receiving the Thomas Jefferson Award from NOAA for his 56 years of service as a National Weather Service cooperative observer. In all of those years, Mr. Swint has never missed an observation. That is 20,440 consecutive days of measuring temperature and precipitation! …
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Reports on impacts of recent rains continue to come in, both from the flood event on October 1-5 in South Carolina and surrounding areas, and in other parts of the Southeast. The Packer provided a story describing the significant impacts of the heavy rains on vegetable production in South and North Carolina and Virginia. In…
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Saturday will be the wettest day of the week, with showers associated with a front moving through the Southeast. Unfortunately, this rain will also hit the already rain-soaked regions of South Carolina, adding insult to injury in those sodden areas. Once the front is past, it looks like the rest of the week will be…
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NOAA released their summary for the climate of September 2015 today. The analysis shows that this September was the second warmest since records began in 1895, following September 1998, which was the warmest September on record. Most of the country was warmer than normal, but the Southeast was very close to the long-term average and…
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The Southeast Farm Press published a gallery of 14 images of storm-damaged crops from the South Carolina flood earlier this week. You can see them here. I heard today on National Public Radio that direct estimates of agricultural losses from the storm are estimated at $30 million, but I haven’t been able to find the story…
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The latest NOAA ENSO blog shows some statistics on how El Niño affects the number of rainy days in winter. From previous discussion on this blog, we know that many parts of the Southeast get more rain than normal in El Niño winters, but this shows that the number of rainy days also increases, as…