January 2021
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Usually producers don’t worry too much about drought in the winter, since cold temperatures limit the evaporation and dormant plants don’t need much water. But the large area of drought in the western US is causing some concern for farmers there because the La Nina is expected to make things drier over the next few…
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The latest update on climate in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin will be held on Tuesday, January 26, at 1 pm EST. You can get information on this and other activities occurring in the Southeast and register for the webinar at https://myemail.constantcontact.com/January-26-ACF-Drought-and-Water-Monthly-Webinar.html?soid=1107257096495&aid=4z6hDrIWlJ0.
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The North Carolina Climate Office has produced a number of recorded webinars that discuss different aspects of climate change on North Carolina. Most of these webinars would be generally applicable around the Southeast, so if you are interested, I am sure you would find useful information there. So far there are six in the series,…
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While we focus on the Southeast in this blog, I also like to share stories about climate and agriculture elsewhere in the world. This story from Yahoo News highlights the severe drought that is occurring in Turkey and how better use of irrigation could help alleviate some of the drought there. The reservoirs there are…
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Every January we get a series of notices from different climate agencies about how the recently-ended year’s climate compares to previous years. Since each agency calculates the global average temperature in a slightly different way, it’s really no surprise that they don’t always agree on the exact temperature value and how it compares to other…
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Snow comes in many different forms. The most familiar to us are dendrites, what we usually see in Christmas cards and in paper cutouts our kids make. Dendrites form in a very specific set of temperature and humidity conditions that only occur at some places in the atmosphere. But snow can also form as needles,…
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The use of computers in predicting the weather has been around for a long time. As far back as World War 1, scientists envisioned a method for calculating what the weather would be like in the future based on observations and knowledge of atmospheric physical principles. Lewis Fry Richardson, a Quaker who spent his spare…