Pam Knox
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Last week’s Georgia Climate Project webinar on how climate change is affecting Georgia’s weather is now available for viewing on their YouTube Channel. It features several speakers talking about how the climate of the Southeast is changing and how it is affecting weather patterns in the area. You can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWjO110F6A&list=PL9kAedrE5bBHj8u3lIzsi1JmBHjne5LRF&index=5. You can…
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UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant are offering a new free online class on designing rain gardens for coastal Georgia. It will be held on March 13 from 10 am to noon online. Rain gardens are designed to manage stormwater runoff to reduce flooding and improve water quality. The class is designed for homeowners,…
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Today is March 1, and that means that it is now climatological spring. What a crazy winter it has been! Climatologists tie the start of spring to the beginning March for a number of reasons. Originally it was done for convenience when people had to do their climate average calculations by hand, but now you…
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The wet winter has put producers behind in their field work in many parts of the Southeast. According to a recent article in Vegetable and Specialty Crop News, this could have a snowball effect and delay things all year, even potentially affecting fall planting if farmers continue to be behind. You can read more at…
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Last week I had the honor of testifying before the House Agriculture Committee on the topic of “Climate Change and the US Agriculture and Forestry Sectors.” It was a long hearing that lasted almost five hours. My key points from the testimony are below. If you are interested in hearing the full hearing, you can…
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I have many friends who share stories about climate and agriculture with me via social media and email. Here are several stories I have read in the news and their posts lately related to climate that you might find interesting. National Science Foundation: Tree rings and Iceland’s Laki volcano eruption: A closer look at climate…
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Today is the last day of meteorological winter, and in spite of being in a La Nina this year, it has not felt nearly as warm and dry as we usually expect from a LN winter due to the impacts of the Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) which pushed the storm track south into our region,…
Posted in: Climate summaries