August 2018
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The latest weekly Drought Monitor shows that abnormally dry conditions have improved in North Carolina in the last week. However, a broad area of abnormally dry conditions has been introduced into a swath of Alabama this week in response to recent rains that have been mainly confined to the Atlantic Coast. However, with this week’s…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released their latest outlooks yesterday for August 2018 and the August through October 2018 period. The maps show that precipitation has an increased chance of being above normal for the next month, although the signs are less clear for the August through October period. Temperatures for the next three months are…
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If you are a livestock producer, Drovers Newsletter has published a very useful story on a new report which describes what you can do both to prepare for disasters before they occur and how to recover after a disaster occurs. Many of these disasters are, of course, weather-related. You can read the story here.
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Purdue University has just released a new report which describes the impacts of changing climate on agriculture in Indiana, which like much of the Southeast is heavily invested in growing crops and livestock for food and other uses. While climate changes in the Southeast have been more subtle than those in Indiana and the Corn…