Pam Knox
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Have you ever needed to settle a bar bet about the weather but did not know where to go to get the right information? Or maybe you just have a weather-crazy kid or grandkid that wants to know everything they can about the worst weather ever. This web site is for you–the State Climate Extremes…
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The latest monthly Water Resources Outlook video from the National Weather Service has been posted to YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQJKSsEASs&feature=youtu.be.
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The latest seasonal climate summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can find it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportWinter2018_19.pdf.
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The Southeast Farm Press posted an interesting story today which describes how weather and climate impact the development of a uniform field of corn, which is key to getting the top yields. One of things that is needed is a string of 4 days in a row with temperatures at or above 60 F. This…
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Here’s a story from the end of January (so a little dated) which has a pretty good description of how climate is changing in the Midwest, where I am from. Yes, it’s from BuzzFeed so tilts towards climate change activism, but overall the science is good and based on the National Climate Assessment. Some of…
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It’s taken almost a year, but we have completed our look at the Georgia Climate Project Roadmap. For those of you who joined us late, this is a list of 40 of the most important research questions (determined by a working group of about 60 Georgia scientists) facing scientists who are looking into how climate…
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While this blog is mainly about climate and its impacts on agriculture, sometimes the news gets in the way and we look a little more broadly about food. I thought this article from Bloomberg about what folks in the UK would eat if Brexit held up imports. No daily tea? It made me think about…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news