A story this week in Yale Climate Connections discusses how some French wine growers are planting their vines next to trees to help keep temperatures more moderate, which will extend the ability of French varietals to grow in areas that are warming up due to climate change. Because most growers…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released today by NOAA. It shows that June 2020 was one of the hottest and driest on record for the country as a whole, although the Southeast was relatively cool. In addition, the first half of 2020 brought 10 billion-dollar weather disasters. This…
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Is the heat making your cows uncomfortable? Heat stress on livestock can cause health issues, make cattle gain weight more slowly because they are unhappy, and even reduce fertility. This article from the American Agriculturalist points out that sometimes even small changes like changing the direction of a blowing fan…
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The latest monthly climate summaries for June 2020 are now available from the North Carolina Climate Office and the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can view them at: North Carolina: http://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=318&h=5666e5c1 Southeast: https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJune2020.pdf
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Today’s low over southwest Georgia has brought intermittent showers to Georgia and parts of Alabama and South Carolina today. Tonight the center of rotation is near Macon, but it is expected to slowly move towards the northeast. If it moves over the warm water off the coast of the Carolinas,…
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A warm winter followed by a cool April and May and some blasts of hot weather have led to throngs of grasshoppers and other cotton pests this year, according to Alabama Extension agents quoted in Cotton Grower. The grasshoppers are especially numerous in the coastal plain where they do better…
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Almost everyone in the Southeast knows that Georgia and Florida have been fighting a legal battle for many years now about the amount of water that should flow from Georgia to Florida into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, the so-called “Water War.” It’s gone all the way to…
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