March 2017
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Estimates of damage from last week’s killing frost continue to come in. Here are a few more stories about impacts of the frost on crops in the Southeast, particularly Georgia blueberries and South Carolina peaches. But other crops have felt some impacts as well, while others largely escaped significant damage. The Packer: Georgia blueberries bear…
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This week in the aftermath of the Northeast blizzard and accusations of a bad forecast there, Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA discusses perceptions of good and bad forecasts in his latest blog post at Forbes.com. In some cases, the forecast is quite good but the timing or the placement of the biggest impacts occurs at…
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Project VORTEX studied tornadoes in the Southeast last year after several previous projects looked at tornadoes in the central part of the United States. They started a second year of research on March 8 and it will go until May 8. So on severe weather days you may see convoys of radar trucks and chase…
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Bob Kemerait of UGA had a really insightful piece published in the Southeast Farm Press this week on the importance of Extension agents after a devastating event like the freeze that killed most of the blueberries in Georgia last week along with some strawberries, peaches and apples. He points out that “It is a bitter…
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The South Central Climate Science Center has a series of short videos which cover a variety of aspects of climate science and climate change information. Most of the videos are around 5-7 minutes long and provide information on topics like the carbon cycle, how we measure past climates, and how climate models work, but they…
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Growing Georgia published a note from University of Georgia scientists this morning asking for help from the public in doing research on dogwoods. You can read it here. You can help by downloading an app to your smartphone which will help you and the scientists document the blooming times for dogwood around the Southeast. Citizen…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their winter recap this morning discussing the weather which has affected North Carolina over the last few months. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=231&h=5666e5c1.
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