The latest 7-day QPF map shows that almost all of the Southeast is expected to get significant amounts of rain in the next week. The next few days will be dry, then rain chances will pick up by Tuesday and grow later in the week. Many places could see several…
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This is more whimsy than science, but I thought this article about some amazing wind-powered walking sculptures was really interesting. Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates stunning wind-powered, walking sculptures useing plastic yellow tubes to build his “skeletons” – after that, the sculptures are able to walk on their own with…
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Fruit producers in Georgia may be interested in seeing our summary of chilling hours for all 87 UGA weather stations in one place. You can find the complete list which provides chill hours from November 1 through yesterday at http://www.georgiaweather.net/?content=ch. It includes the last four years so you can see…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released yesterday, shows that while the amount of drought in Florida has stayed the same, the amount of area covered by abnormally dry conditions has doubled in size from last week. It expanded in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and along the coasts of North and South Carolina….
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For those of you who really like to plan ahead, here is some information about the 5th National Adaptation Forum, to be held in Atlanta GA on April 26-28, 2021. Never too early to get it on your calendar! You can read more about it and find a link to…
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After the devastating loss of most of Georgia’s cotton crop to Hurricane Michael in 2018, producers are looking for a way to minimize these types of losses in future years. UGA cotton specialist Jared Whitaker is testing out some alternative strategies like planting earlier or spreading out the planting window…
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You know from previous blog posts that tree rings contain a lot of climate information encoded in the thickness of each annual ring, including information about temperature and precipitation as well as some occasional information about fires, floods and other impactful events. But you might not know that tree rings…
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