Pam Knox
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A new study recently published in Nature Communications shows that taller trees in a forest died at more than twice the rate of smaller trees at the end of extreme drought. The research used airborne lidar to sample the health of forests with such detail that they could drill down to individual trees and see…
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On Twitter today one of my climatologist friends noted that Google Cloud has a treasure trove of links to databases on weather and climate. Many of these are databases available through sources I have mentioned before like the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) but there are also other ones you might find useful. You…
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Physics Today reported this week that due to the warming hole which is seen in the central US, corn yields there are higher than they would be if that area had warmed as much as the rest of the United States. The cooler temperatures improved corn’s performance there. One thing the article did not address…
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Here is something you don’t hear every day. You may know that there are some horrendous forest fires burning out in Sonoma County, CA, northwest of San Francisco. Apparently the ash is falling so densely that it has caused a weather instrument that measures type of precipitation to report rain, although there is certainly none…
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The Georgia Climate Project has a new 2-minute video which explains what climate change means for Georgia. You can view it on YouTube here and learn more at https://georgiaclimateproject.org.
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Every farmer and extension agent that I talk to agrees that recent changes to USDA have caused a lot of concern about the agency’s ability to serve the agricultural community. Questions have arisen about the loss of expertise in the move of some parts of the agency out of Washington and the removal of certain…
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As expected, the remains of Olga, which briefly formed in the Gulf of Mexico before merging with a front and becoming a post-tropical remnant, will continue to bring heavy rains to northwestern parts of the Southeast today and tomorrow before moving out. Another front coming through early next week will bring more widespread rain to…
Posted in: Climate outlooks