Pam Knox
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Today’s stunning picture is of a snowfall in the Sahara desert in an area that has not seen snow in the last 37 years. While summer temperatures in the Sahara can be stifling, winter can actually be quite chilly, especially in the higher elevation areas near the Atlas Mountains. I love the picture of white…
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According to a disturbing report in Gizmodo today, “A new study published in Nature Plants demonstrates the surprisingly damaging effects of a 1930s-type drought on current US crops, and the impacts of global warming on agriculture in the years to come. Researchers Michael Glotter and Joshua Elliot from the University of Chicago ran computer simulations…
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There has been quite a bit of kerfluffle in the news lately about climate scientists rushing to archive climate data and worries that research on climate science will be significantly cut back once President Trump takes office. Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has a thoughtful and detailed discussion of why it is important…
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Growing Georgia reported this week that a number of Georgia counties have received a drought declaration from the USDA based on the drought that is plaguing the Southeast. This allows agricultural producers in those primary and contiguous counties to be eligible for low-interest emergency loans. You can see the list and read more about it…
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This morning at 5:44 am EST we officially experienced the winter solstice of 2016. This is the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere (and the longest for the Southern Hemisphere) due to the tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation, which is tilting away from the sun this time of the year.…
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The Capital Weather Gang posted a startling new story about the unbelievably warm temperatures at the North Pole that are expected to occur by Thursday. An usually warm period occurred a few weeks ago, and the conditions this time are expected to be even more extreme. The warm anomalies are linked to the lack of…
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Ben Potter posted a story in AgWeb this week about two good sources of information on weather and climate data via apps for your smartphone and online. You can read it here. One of the resources is a web page of agricultural weather maps at https://www.atmos.illinois.edu/~snodgrss/Ag_Wx.html. It has a wealth of maps of current weather and…
Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data