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SRECA presentations are now available on YouTube

If you are interested in the presentations from the Southeast Regional Extension Climate Academy, they have just been uploaded to the PINEMAP YouTube video channel.  You can access them at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHu4PGejzrIyU2A7Mm2RIWhybDik1jnW3.  The audio is of variable quality since they were just recorded from ambient sound.  Thank you to Dr. Eric…
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Tropical update–a big mess

The National Hurricane Center has started issuing advisories on the old Investigation 91 in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, now identified as a tropical depression with a closed center.  This system is not expected to make landfall.  Investigation 92 is still east of Florida and moving west, but so far…
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Another source of QPF maps

Previous blog postings have provided links to quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) maps from the Climate Prediction Center.  Here is another source that is geared towards the Southeast from the NWS Southeast River Forecast Center (https://www.srh.noaa.gov/serfc/?n=qpfpage).  Note that the SERFC maps only cover the next 48 hours in 6-hour increments so…
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Stripling Irrigation Park newsletter has great comments on dealing with current weather conditions

The latest newsletter from UGA’s Stripling Irrigation Park (available at https://striplingpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2014-Sept-Newsletter.pdf  has some great comments on how the wet spring and dry summer have affected cotton and peanuts around the area, particularly in southwest Georgia.  Wes Porter, the UGA irrigation specialist, has some good comments about irrigation needs for cotton…
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