Pam Knox
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According to the Fruit Growers News, Hurricane Ian damaged more than 5 million acres of Florida agricultural land, including non-citrus fruit and tree nuts and winegrape vineyards in an estimated $1.56 billion in damages. University of Florida (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) economists released initial damage estimates. Damages from seasonal crops such…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that there is little chance of rain in the forecast again this week, and amounts are expected to be light if it does fall. After a dry and quiet fall weekend, we can expect increasing chances of showers by mid-week, but the amounts expected are low so won’t make…
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Earlier this week I posted a story about rebuilding in Mexico Beach, FL, after Hurricane Michael in 2018. Here is a similar story from Yahoo News about what homeowners in Fort Myers Beach, FL, are likely to have to face after Hurricane Ian. Many of the workers who serve in restaurants or run tourist companies…
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NOAA issued their winter forecast for the upcoming winter today. It shows that this will be another year with impacts related to the ongoing third year of La Nina, with warmer and drier than normal conditions expected across the southern part of the country as the jet stream and its associated storms is pushed to…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this week, shows that an area of severe (D2) drought in northeastern Georgia has significantly expanded and moderate drought has developed in western North Carolina due to the lack of any rainfall over the last few weeks. Another area of drought has expanded in the Florida Panhandle into parts of…
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Assessments of the impacts of Hurricane Ian on agriculture in the Southeast continue to come in. Here are some more stories I have seen recently that document some of the problems caused by the storm. Yahoo News: After Hurricane Ian, Florida citrus and agriculture struggle Southeast AgNet: Florida Commissioner Nikki Fried on UF/IFAS Preliminary Agricultural Damage…
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What happens after a hurricane comes through and flattens your community? First you rescue what you can, then you start to determine how to recover and move on. But for those who remain at the devastated location, they often have to rebuild under updated building codes that are much more expensive to engineer, and many…