Pam Knox
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Soil and climate are two of the key components needed to determine what types of crop to grow and how well they will do after planting. Today is World Soils Day, the kickoff to 2015 as the International Year of Soils. You can read the official declaration from the United Nations and an overview video…
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The rains returned to California with a vengeance this week, with many areas of the state receiving several inches of rain. I previously discussed the “Pineapple Express” and the stream of moisture which feeds into the Pacific coastal areas to create intense rainstorms. You can read one description of the recent storms here. Many climatologists…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted a blog this morning describing some potential problems they were having with relative humidity sensors on their automated weather network. The sensors were reading values much lower than is usually seen, and they were concerned that the observations might be bad. The blog describes what they did…
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November 2014 was one of the top five coldest Novembers on record for many stations across Georgia. Statewide, this is also likely to be in the top five coldest Novembers on record, although a final value has not yet been determined as observations continue to come in. Precipitation across the state ranged from well above…
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NOAA’s website Climate.gov has just released a short video describing how one Alabama farmer uses climate forecasts to improve his farm operation. Their blurb and the links to two versions of the video are below: “Alabama grower Myron Johnson talks about how learning to use seasonal outlooks for rain and temperature has made his operation…
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I’ve been getting upwards of 50 or more spam messages a day on this blog in spite of using Captcha and other devices so I am going to turn off comments for the time being. Please feel free to email blog-related comments directly to me at pknox @ uga.edu. Sorry for this inconvenience but it…
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A Time magazine article describes some of the changes that have been seen in recent years with snowshoe hares, wolverines, flying foxes, bats, and other wild mammals as climate has warmed and changed patterns of snow and humidity as well as temperature. In the future this may affect the range of some of these wild…
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