Pam Knox
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Here are a couple more articles describing agricultural impacts from the Florida IFAS/Extension folks and Southeast AgNet. As expected, Idalia has turned out to be a significant loss to Florida farmers in addition to the damage to buildings, roads, and other infrastructure including homes. IFAS: Hurricane Idalia: Florida Agricultural Production Losses Top Estimated $78M Southeast…
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Over the weekend we passed from astronomical summer to fall as the sun moved across the plane of the earth’s equator. Days just get shorter from now until the winter solstice in December. I can certainly tell the change, and I bet you can too. You can learn more about the fall equinox at EarthSky…
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Tropical storm Ophelia formed yesterday and made landfall this morning around 6:20 am along the coast of North Carolina as it moved north along the coastal plain of NC and VA. It is bringing high winds and heavy rain to those areas and is sure to be causing agricultural impacts in that region. We will…
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Tropical Storm Ophelia formed over the last few days and made landfall along the coast of NC this morning. It is moving north and bringing windy conditions and heavy rain to a lot of eastern North Carolina and Virginia. It will be moving out to the northeast over the next couple of days before it…
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If you live along the Gulf Coast, this new free tool may help you identify the potential risks your home may be in danger of experiencing. When you put in your address, then it will use census tract data to determine the relative danger from different risks in the area and what kinds of insurance…
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Climate.gov has an interesting new story map tool that allows you to look at the most extreme high temperatures at thousands of US weather stations across the country. It is interesting to see how the extreme highs vary across the country. In the Southeast, the hottest temperatures are not in Florida, where ocean temperatures may…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the area covered by drought increased in Alabama, Florida, and Virginia but had only slight changes in the other states of the Southeast this past week. Dry conditions since then may result in further increases in dryness in next week’s map except in areas that could be…
Posted in: Drought