2018
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Rain and frost have hurt the supply of artichokes from California this year according to The Packer last week. First a heavy frost hit, and that was followed by rain which caused the artichokes to look frosted and reduced yields just ahead of the Easter season, when artichokes are often promoted. However, unless they get…
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Today’s Drought Monitor shows that severe drought has now appeared in southern Florida and has expanded in South Carolina, as well as a significant introduction of moderate drought into that state. As of today, severe drought covers almost 7% of the region, any drought over a quarter of the region, and any dry conditions more…
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After a record-setting warm February in the Southeast, it shocked many people to swing back to colder than normal temperatures in March. In many places, the average temperature for March was colder than the average temperature for February this year. Precipitation in most of the state was also below normal, leading to an increase in…
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This is one of the more unusual stories I have read about the relationship between agriculture and climate. A set of new rivers has appeared in Argentina, due to a combination of factors that includes land use changes associated with growing soybeans and a rainier climate. The rivers are rapidly eroding farmland, leaving behind deepening…
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The Florida Climate Center has released their latest climate summary, for March 2018. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=520.
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The Adventures in Mapping blog has a story this week about how the season migration in tornado events can be mapped just like the migration of wildebeest or other wandering animal or bird species. Tornadoes undergo a seasonal cycle of occurrence that is ultimately related to the sun’s angle, which changes over the course of…
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The latest NOAA outlook for April 2018 shows that no strong tendencies in either temperature or precipitation are expected this month in the Southeast. There is a small area which is leaning towards above-normal temperature in the southern half of the Florida peninsula and a slight tendency towards cold weather in Virginia but otherwise the…
Posted in: Climate outlooks