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NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory has put out a video which shows the change in carbon dioxide over time in the atmosphere on a variety of time scales. It is interesting to see the difference between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The Northern Hemisphere has more land and less…
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Rome Ethredge of Seminole County noted in a recent blog posting that he is seeing some damage to small grains due to the cold temperatures we had earlier in the month. Most of the damage is due to leaf damage since the heads have not emerged yet. The worst damage…
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of a weather event which caused significant damage to agriculture across the Southeast as well as many other problems. A major cold outbreak spread over the Eastern US, extending all the way down into Florida. It caused at least 126 deaths and killed off 90…
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On paper, 2014 was close to an average year climatologically for Georgia. The annual average temperature was 63.0 F, just 0.4 F below the 1901-2000 average. The annual total precipitation was 51.13 inches, just 1.06 inches above the average. Both of these are well within the range of what is…
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The latest seasonal forecasts were released by the Climate Prediction Center this week and show little indication of what our next three months could be like. With the chances for an El Nino rapidly waning, there is nothing in the atmospheric pattern to suggest whether our temperature and precipitation will…
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The Packer published an article this week which described the impacts of a freeze on January 4 on the production of greens in Georgia (link). “Temperatures in the Norman Park growing region bottomed out in the low 20s, said Tommy Collinsworth, sales and marketing director for Norman Park-based Baker Farms…
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If you enjoy reading about history as much as I do, you will be fascinated about this brief history of weather forecasting put together by Chris Robbins, who runs iWeatherNet.com. Official weather forecasts have been produced by meteorologists for well over 100 years, first by the US Department of Agriculture…
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