October 2019
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It’s getting to be that time of year again. We are approaching the average date of first frost for the Athens and Atlanta areas. Parts of northern GA have already experienced a bit of frost earlier this fall, and colder weather may bring freezing air into more of the state within the next week or…
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Occasionally I get asked if and how climate change is affecting extreme weather in the Southeast. This has come up more frequently in the past few years with all of the hurricanes which have impacted agriculture in the past few years, including Matthew, Florence, Irma, and Michael. Here is a lengthy but useful description of…
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With just a couple of days left in the month, October 2019 looks like it will be the warmest on record for a number of stations in the Florida peninsula. Many other parts of the Southeast can expect to see one of their top five warmest, according to the statistics from the Southeast Regional Climate…
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A new study recently published in Nature Communications shows that taller trees in a forest died at more than twice the rate of smaller trees at the end of extreme drought. The research used airborne lidar to sample the health of forests with such detail that they could drill down to individual trees and see…
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On Twitter today one of my climatologist friends noted that Google Cloud has a treasure trove of links to databases on weather and climate. Many of these are databases available through sources I have mentioned before like the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) but there are also other ones you might find useful. You…
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Physics Today reported this week that due to the warming hole which is seen in the central US, corn yields there are higher than they would be if that area had warmed as much as the rest of the United States. The cooler temperatures improved corn’s performance there. One thing the article did not address…
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Here is something you don’t hear every day. You may know that there are some horrendous forest fires burning out in Sonoma County, CA, northwest of San Francisco. Apparently the ash is falling so densely that it has caused a weather instrument that measures type of precipitation to report rain, although there is certainly none…