June 2018
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With all the wet conditions the Southeast had starting in mid-May and the warm conditions we are experiencing now, some producers are seeing problems with lack of nitrogen in corn. This article from AgWeb is aimed at farmers facing similar conditions in the Midwest Corn Belt, but provides some good advice for producers in the…
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The University of Georgia released a story this week on my new position as head of the Georgia Weather Network. You can read it at the Albany Herald here.
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Almost 30 years ago, on June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived. The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was “the opening salvo of the age of climate change.” Before that, most scientists knew that…
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In one of my favorite books, “The Control of Nature” by John McPhee, a third of the book discusses the topic of mud flows in California after wildfires occur on the steep slopes there. This story by Reuters tells a similar tale about what is likely to happen in the Southwest after wildfires burn down…
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According to a recent story on USAgNet, “Dramatic human-caused changes in land cover between 1850 and the 1930s had a substantive effect on the 1930s Dust Bowl drought in the Great Plains, a new study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers finds.” Ocean temperatures are part of the story of what caused the Dust Bowl, but…
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Today NASA and NOAA both released their monthly global climate summaries for May 2018. Both of them, using related data sets with different analysis techniques, show that this past May was the 4th warmest on record for each of the data sets. The warmest year was 2016 when the last El Niño was in full…
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Back in the spring of 2016, the developing drought in northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama caused livestock producers there to seek hay from places as far away as Missouri. Fortunately, that area’s drought is now a distant memory, but drought has now formed in Missouri, causing problems for producers there. This article from Drovers Newsletter…