Pam Knox
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With the heavy rain that is expected for parts of the Southeast this week, you may need to know where to get flood information. The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center is a great source of information on all things related to water and hydrology. Their website is at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/alr. The image below shows…
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Climate Central has a new tool available to show how your city’s climate this past winter compares to all the other winters on record for that station. You can find the tool on the Weather Channel website by clicking here. Below I’ve compared Miami FL to Charlotte NC to show the differences between the northern…
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The Weather Underground blog published an interesting story today on the unseasonably early decrease in the Arctic sea ice (link). Normally March is when the maximum extent of sea ice occurs, at the end of the long winter season. However, this year satellite observations of sea ice extent show that the sea ice already appears…
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Recently AgFax.com published an article by UGA scientist Lenny Wells on the current status of peaches and pecans in Georgia. You can read the article here. In the article Wells discusses the chill hours needed by peaches and notes that because of the cold winter the peaches have received plenty of chill hours this year.…
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Now that March is upon us and the atmospheric pattern has shifted into something that is bringing more spring-like weather to the Southeast, it’s time to think about planting. And that means thinking about the last frost of the winter. AgroClimate has a tool which shows the last frost date by county for the Southeast. …
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As the window on the wet season in California starts to close, there are signs that the drought affecting the area is likely to continue and perhaps even to grow over the coming year. The Western Governors’ Association released a report this week stating that snowpacks in the mountainous areas are far below normal after…
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The 2015 Waste to Worth conference scheduled for Seattle on March 30-April 3 still has some spaces available for participants. The Animal Agriculture and Climate Change group which helps supports this blog is helping to organize some of the sessions in this conference. If you are wondering whether you should attend, here is a description of the…