Pam Knox
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Some of you have noticed that my blog post digests have not been showing up for the last few days. WordPress changed the number of emails we can send out each month and I surpassed that, so they cut me off for a few days. Because of the new limits, I will be reducing the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that extreme (D3) drought has appeared in South Alabama as well as expanded slightly in Florida. A small area of moderate (D1) drought has also appeared in southwest Georgia. Since most rain in the next few days will be confined mostly to Florida, the area of drought in…
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As the earth’s climate changes, strawberry growers are having to deal with temperatures that are warmer than in the past. In California, they are also having to deal with increased salinity of the soil due to irrigation, leading to negative impacts on new plants. But with strawberries as a very high-value crop, producers are using…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the United States was released earlier this week by NOAA. It shows that temperatures along the southern part of the Southeast were warmer than normal but northern areas were closer to normal. Precipitation varied across the region with a band of wet conditions stretching through Alabama, Georgia, and North…
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Here are a few more stories on the impacts of Hurricane Idalia’s wind and rain on agriculture in the Southeast. Florida Climate Center: Hurricane Idalia Preliminary Post-Storm Summary Georgia Farm Monitor: Hurricane Idalia Wreaks Havoc on Georgia Agriculture (video) Specialty Crop Industry: Strawberry Farmer Testimonial: Hurricane Idalia Impact Not as Bad as Planting Season Looms…
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Yesterday, September 10, was the climatological midpoint of the Atlantic tropical season. You can read more about what that means from the Weather Channel here. This means we have a long way to go before we are safe from the potential impacts of another hurricane. Tonight, there are two active hurricanes in the Atlanta: Hurricane…
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Here’s the first of four blog posts that provide a retrospective on Hurricane Florence and its impacts on North Carolina, five years after it happened, from the North Carolina State Climate Office. You can read it at Florence After Five: An Anxious Arrival – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu) on their climate blog. Update:…