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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, show that two small areas of moderate (D1) drought have been introduced to southern South Carolina and east central Georgia. These are in response to the dry conditions in those regions, which have been largely bypassed by the heavy rains that have hit…
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If you like to watch new movies in the theater, you may have noticed that an increasing theme or setting in the movies is in a world warmed by climate change. This is not true of just disaster movies (think The Day After Tomorrow) but in many other genres as…
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Clint Thompson of UGA recently interviewed me, along with some other UGA specialists, on the impact that El Niño is having on Georgia agriculture so far this year. One consequence of this year’s El Niño is the heavy rains that we have seen in northern parts of the state. In…
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Here’s an audio story on the huge decreases in pecan production that happened in 2018 due to the impacts of Hurricane Michael (as well as Irma in 2017, which also blew down a lot of trees). In Georgia it cut the production from 105 million pounds in 2017 to 56…
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NOAA’s latest monthly climate summary for the globe was released earlier this week. It shows that for the earth as a whole, this was the 5th warmest on record since 1880. Note that parts of North America was one of the few areas globally that had a significant cold departure,…
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If you have not been paying attention to the news recently, you may have missed the tremendous consequences of the very strong storm which passed through the central Plains earlier this week. In addition to record-setting wind gusts and low pressure, it provided blizzard conditions which caused a lot of…
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The Weather Channel recently released this 11-minute video which talks to farmers in southwest Georgia about their experiences with the aftermath of Hurricane Michael and what it has meant for their life and future as farming families. How have they been able to cope with the economic losses sustained in…
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