Archive: May 2016
90 archived posts
- “Alaska: Last Frontier on the front lines”
- “An Inconvenient Truth”, 10 years later: A scorecard
- “Hail Hath No Fury Like a Springtime Storm”
- “NC Forest Service Attacks April’s Fires Using Lessons from the Past”
- “Sea Level Rise Swamping Florida’s Everglades”
- “Warm Spring Causes Difficulty for Northwest Alfalfa Growers”
- “What standing water does to your corn”
- “What’s dewpoint, and why don’t meteorologists use it more often?”
- 2016 USDA-NCAR WORKSHOP on climate change and food security July 12-15
- 80 percent chance of cyclone development in 48 hours
- Another mostly dry week may expand drought
- Arctic sea ice reaches its lowest extent yet for this date
- Australia: El Niño is over
- Change to wetter pattern is good news for farmers
- Climate Change Science 101 for Land-grant University Administrators and Extension Agents
- Climate Learning Network: Webinar on agriculture and adaptation to changing climate on Thursday June 2
- Drier weather returns
- Drought expands in northeast Alabama
- Drought increased in Alabama but decreased elsewhere
- Earliest snow melt on record observed in Arctic
- East coast blizzards may be more likely as Arctic warms
- Eastern Pacific Ocean tropical season begins today with 10% chance of formation
- El Niño effects on soybeans and other crops in Midwest and Southeast
- Ethiopia’s severe drought has fewer bad impacts due to better land management
- Extreme heat and your health
- Farming a major source of aerosol pollution
- First peek at May 2016 summary: Cooler than normal and split precipitation pattern
- Florida avocado season gets a late start this year
- Florida climate summary for April 2016 now available
- Florida’s wet and dry seasons, explained
- Georgia Green Industry upcoming events
- Growing hops in the Southeast to meet local demand
- Hail damages almost 400 acres of watermelon in South Georgia
- Happy Mothers’ Day!
- Harvesting blueberries in Georgia in full swing
- Heat stress forecasts for livestock
- Hot temperatures help drive Alberta forest fires
- How a personal weather station can help manage your farm
- How do hurricanes get their names?
- How do you become a meteorologist?
- Impacts of Lake Michigan on local farmers
- India sets new all-time record high temperature on May 19
- Interesting animation on global temperatures over time
- Japanese Priests Collected Almost Seven Centuries of Climate Data
- Just in time for Memorial Day, the tropics wake up
- Latest seasonal outlooks show warmer than normal temperatures likely for next year
- Latest Southern SARE newsletter lists upcoming events
- Lightning in super slow motion
- Major source of rain this week: Tropical Depression 2
- May 1934 Dust Bowl storms blew dirt from Oklahoma all the way to NYC and DC
- Mid-April frost damaged tobacco in some areas
- Moderate drought doubles in area in Georgia
- Moderate drought expands in the Southeast
- More stories about the Fort McMurray fire in Alberta
- Mother’s Day tornadoes of 2008
- NASA: April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs
- National Air Quality Week
- New Climate Learning Network web site now available
- New NOAA climate atlas online
- New ways to reduce methane from cattle
- NOAA: April 2016 was 12th consecutive record warm month
- NOAA: Near-normal hurricane season is most likely
- NOAA: Warm April contributes to second warmest year to date for contiguous US
- North Carolina’s disappointing wheat crop
- North Carolina: April Saw Fire, Little Rain, and Sunny, Seasonal Days
- NOWData a good source of National Weather Service daily data
- Rain causes problems for cherries in the Pacific Northwest
- Rain damages California cherries
- Recovering Rwanda’s missing 15 years of weather records
- Resources on climate and agriculture from Iowa State Extension
- S.C. Senate Passes $40 Million Aid Bill for Flood-Devastated Farmers
- Smoke from Alberta fires seen in satellite image
- Strange weather stories
- The calendar days with the most and least tornadoes
- The forest and the trees
- The tornadoes of 2011 remembered
- Tropical Storm Bonnie forms
- USDA: How Food and Forestry Are Adapting to a Changing Climate
- Variable May conditions so far
- Variable rainfall and somewhat warmer than normal conditions across the Southeast in April 2016
- Warm temperatures in Pacific NW leading to early cherry harvest
- Weather and climate toolkit available
- Weather-Related Natural Disasters Now Cost $250B Globally Each Year
- Wet conditions hurt tomato production in Louisiana
- Wet fields are delaying planting of soybeans in Texas and Louisiana
- What’s your risk of being hit by a hurricane?
- Will Florida’s hurricane drought end this year?
- Winter’s warmer temperatures a boost for some Georgia watermelon farmers
- xmACIS provides access to historical climate data
- “Feast or famine” rainfall and above-normal temperatures in April 2016