If you are interested in reading about the weather and agriculture of the Great Plains, you might want to check out this new blog by Albert Sutherland. His first post is a story about a new climate tool which shows trends in temperature and precipitation over time, similar to the…
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The Sun-Sentinel reported this week that unusually strong bursts of Saharan dust are being blown off of Africa this year. This is similar to the pattern that caused lower hurricane activity than expected in last year’s hurricane season. In addition, cooler than normal temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are also…
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A recent study published by the Southeast Climate Center shows that the Southeast is more vulnerable to killer twisters than other parts of the country. Florida leads the country in deaths per mile of tornado track, followed by Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio and Alabama. Head author Charles Konrad II explains…
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A scientific article published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the US claims that raising beef cattle is much worse for the environment and global climate than production of other livestock such as poultry, pork or dairy. Their study was based on a detailed…
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NOAA reported that June 2014 was the warmest June on record in 134 years of measurements, following a record-setting May. Much of the warming was due to a surge in ocean temperatures, although the expected warming from El Nino in the eastern Pacific Ocean has not really occurred yet. The…
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The Midwestern Climate Center has made an easy-to-use portal to National Weather Service cooperative weather data archives on their website, called cli-MATE. Even though they are located in Champaign IL and cover the Midwestern states, the database contains information for locations across the US. The system is free to use…
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The Packer wrote in a story on 7/17 that banana supplies could be affected by damage in Costa Rica and Columbia which destroyed or damaged a “very significant area” of banana-producing farms. While final damage assessments are still being made, some reduction in overall banana volume is likely. Click here…
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