Pam Knox
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Did you know there was a day for your favorite weatherperson? Well, today is the day. According to this NWS web site (link), February 5 is National Weatherperson’s Day, commemorating the birth of John Jeffries in 1744. Jeffries, one of America’s first weather observers, began taking daily weather observations in Boston in 1774 and he…
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This is the title of an article published this week by AgWeb on some research currently underway to understand beef production vulnerability to changes in climate over time. A team headed by Dr. Dan Devlin, an agronomy professor at Kansas State, is working on a five-year project to monitor beef cattle’s response to environmental factors…
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The climate summary for Florida for January 2015 is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-january-2015.
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In comparison to last month, January 2015 was cooler and drier than normal across most of Georgia. Several tornadoes hit southern Georgia early in the month and a little snow was seen in the far northwestern region of the state in the second half of the month. Temperatures at almost all locations were a bit…
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The University of Minnesota’s Institute of the Environment published a research article this month in Nature Communications which shows how much of the crop yields of maize, rice, soybeans, and wheat depend on the impacts of the climate. In the study the researchers determined that historically 1/3 of the yield variability of the four crops…
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The North Carolina climate summary for January 2015 is now available at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=119&h=5666e5c1.
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Today, February 2, marks the traditional celebration of Groundhog Day. Thousands of media converge on Punxsutawney, PA, to see if their captive groundhog Phil sees his shadow. If he does, it means six more weeks of winter. Somehow this year Phil managed to see his shadow even though Pennsylvania is completely overcast today. Or was…
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