I am pleased to announce that I am the new interim director of the Georgia Weather Network, replacing Dr. Ian Flitcroft who is retiring this week. Dr. Flitcroft and Dr. Donn Shilling of the UGA Crop and Soil Sciences Department have worked together to leave the weather network in excellent…
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As we enter the Christmas weekend, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my readers for their attention and their comments and to wish you all a blessed holiday week! I will be taking a few days off to spend time with family and friends and I…
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I am thankful to each one of you for reading this blog and sharing your stories with me. I am taking a couple of days off to spend time with family and friends, to eat and watch football. I bet you are too. Wherever you are, I hope you have…
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If you’ve never heard the term ‘medicane’ then you are not alone. A rare tropical storm is forming in the Mediterranean Sea and is already causing big impacts on Greece, including torrential flooding. Very few of these storms, dubbed ‘medicanes” has ever been seen because the ocean temperatures and atmospheric…
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As part of my new funding from the Southeast Regional Climate Hub, I am looking for projects that relate weather and climate variability to the production and management of crops grown in the Southeast. That could range from grains to fruit to forage and could include both larger commodity crops…
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I am in the process of extending the blog to Facebook and Twitter. Look for us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SEAgClimate/ and on Twitter at @SE_AgClimate. Check it out!
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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub, which is located in Raleigh NC and covers all of the Southeast states, has published their latest newsletter. I’m excited to be working with SERCH for the next ten months looking at ways to show how climate affects agriculture, forestry, livestock and other sectors in…
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