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The latest Drought Monitor was released today and shows that severe drought (D2) expanded slightly in the Southeast as a whole in the past week. Most of the expansion was in the Carolinas and Georgia; extreme drought was eliminated and conditions improved to “severe drought” in southern Florida due to the rain from the remains of Tropical…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released an article today describing some summer student research on drought indices they have undertaken. You can read the article at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=150&h=5666e5c1. The researcher looked at two different datasets of temperature and created a new drought index to compare to the standard Palmer Drought Severity Index to see how…
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In conjunction with the NOAA climate report released today, NOAA has provided a report on nuisance flooding at coastal stations along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts based on their coastal data sets. Nuisance flooding is minor coastal flooding driven by higher than normal tides coupled with unusually storm weather, not major flooding from storm surges.…
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NOAA released their latest climate summary for the US today. It shows that the West continued its string of above-normal temperatures and dry conditions, although a few areas did receive above-normal rainfall. The central US was cooler than average in August with some areas of very wet conditions in the northern Plains and dry conditions…
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Occasionally I’ve been asked where the cleanest air in the US is located. This is especially important for those who have health issues related to breathing, such as COPD, allergies, or cystic fibrosis. It can be hard to find this information since monitoring is usually done by individual state agencies who don’t all use the…
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The 7-day rainfall we’ve seen in the Southeast shows that it was feast or famine for many areas. The map below details the percent of normal each area received based on radar estimates. It shows that southeast Georgia received the heaviest rain from the remains of Erika, with some areas receiving more than 500 percent…
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Today marks the 115th anniversary of the Galveston hurricane that is estimated to have killed over 10,000 people when the city of Galveston TX was hit by a storm surge of over 15 feet. This story was memorialized in the fantastic book, “Isaac’s Storm”. If you have never read it and you like to read…
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