September 2016
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Over the course of the last day, Hurricane Matthew has grown tremendously into a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph over the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Very warm sea surface temperatures in the region are contributing to the rapid growth and will continue to affect it for the next few days. While most of the computer…
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The Florida Climate Center has released a report which summarizes the development and impacts of Hurricane Hermine in Florida as it crossed across the Southeast a few weeks ago. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/docs/Hurricane_Hermine_Fla_summary.pdf.
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There will be a workshop on Weather and Climate Decision Tools for Farmers, Ranchers and Land Managers on December 5-7, 2016 down in Gainesville FL. The registration for the workshop is $75 but is waived if you register by September 30. That’s today! You can read more about it and sign up at https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/decision_tools/index.html. Abstracts are…
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The Georgia Farm Bureau has a nice video on the current status of the peanut harvest in Georgia. You can see it here at a link from Growing Georgia. As you’ll hear, the peanut yields this year have been OK but not great due to the hot and dry conditions that hit parts of the peanut-growing…
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According to a story posted this week in The Packer, “Drought, rain and hail in different parts of the country may take their toll on pumpkin supplies as Halloween nears.” The Northeast is the most likely to see shortages with a drought that has blanketed the region for most of the summer, reducing yields by…
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Check out this fantastic shot of the aurora borealis from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership. It was taken by the Day/Night Band on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrumentover Canada in the early hours on September 29, 2016. Image Credit: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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You may not know it, but Mars Chocolate, the maker of candy brands like M&M, Snickers, and Dove, employs a small team of meteorologists who are dedicated to analyzing the impacts of the weather on the chocolate business. Many other commodity-based companies as well as financial firms do the same thing to keep abreast of weather and…