June 2018
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Weather Underground had an interesting story a week ago about a terrible weather-related disaster that killed between 100,000 and 230,000 people in China in August 1975. Most of you have probably never heard about it since news reports in the US were quite thin. It’s especially timely this year because high rain amounts and a…
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The monthly climate summary for May 2018 is now available from the Florida Climate Center. According to their report, this is likely to be the wettest May in Florida’s climate history based on preliminary data (final results to come in a week or so from NCEI). You can read their report at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=522.
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The latest monthly summary for North Carolina covering May 2018 is now available. Sneak preview: it was their wettest May ever! You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=259&h=5666e5c1.
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This week’s research question from the Georgia Climate Project Roadmap comes from the section on agriculture. Since agriculture is the biggest industry in Georgia, the impacts of changing climate are going to hit our state’s economy hard but could also provide new opportunities for farmers to produce new crops or change their rotation strategies to…
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With almost three weeks of rain under our belts, and everything dripping with moisture, the next thing to expect from all the standing water are clouds of mosquitoes. Besides being a nuisance, they can also carry diseases like West Nile Virus or Zika. Because of this, it is important to minimize pools of water where…
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The rainy, humid and cloudy weather has had some detrimental effects on wine and table grapes in the Southeast. UGA grape specialist Cain Hickey describes some of the issues they are having in a blog post from earlier this week. You can read it at https://site.extension.uga.edu/viticulture/2018/05/what-a-long-strange-bloom-its-been/. His blog is a great source of grape-specific information for…
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After two weeks of very rainy conditions, most producers in the Southeast will be pleased to note that this week’s rain forecast is for much smaller amounts over the course of the week, including dry days for most of the area on Monday and Tuesday. That will allow some of them to catch up on…
Posted in: Climate outlooks