Pam Knox
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Bob Kemerait, a specialist at the University of Georgia in agriculture, recently published an article in Southeast Farm Press on dealing with heat after nearly experiencing a heat stroke while doing corn fungicide research in very hot conditions. In the article he muses on how increased warming might affect agriculture in the Southeast in the…
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NOAA released their monthly climate summary for June 2015 earlier this week. You can read the summary report at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201506. The data show that June 2015 was the warmest on record (since official records began in 1880) for the globe as a whole, although some areas were cooler than average. The first six months of 2015…
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I’ve been out of the country for most of the last two weeks, so was eager to see how the climate for July has fallen out so far. Based on the maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center, it looks like most of the Southeast has been 1-2 degrees warmer than normal. Rainfall has…
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The Southeast Farm Press released a report earlier this month describing a new variety of cattle produced by the University of Florida Range Cattle REC. The Ona White Angus was developed over two decades of cross-breeding and are similar in meat quality to Black Angus but have white hair with black skin. This will make…
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Earlier this month, the blog Carbon Brief published the results of a study asking climatologists which research paper was the most influential in the study of climate. The winner of the study was a 1967 paper by Syukuro Manabe and Richard. T. Wetherald, published in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences entitled ” Thermal Equilibrium of the atmosphere…
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Bloomberg Businessweek had an interesting article last week on the rapid depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer, a huge underground water source that feeds agricultural irrigation in most of the central Plains. The aquifer is being rapidly depleted by overuse in many places, leading farmers to consider the need to switch from corn to less water…
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The last of our snapshots on state climatologists in the Southeast will focus on Virginia. Jerry Stenger is the climatologist heading the University of Virginia Climatology Office, located at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. You can find their web site at https://climate.virginia.edu/. The Virginia office is small but has a big impact because it…
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