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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 a wonderful holiday! And special…

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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 dynamics there are not usually…

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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 like corn and specialty 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 the Southeast.  I’ll be working…

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  • Today marks the third anniversary of the “On the CASE” blog.  Since it started, I have had over 42,000 visits from a variety of users.  I appreciate everyone who comes to the site and enjoy the comments people send me.  I try to provide information on a variety of topics, including crops, livestock, forests, and…

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  • I received word this week that some funding to support this blog has been awarded by the Southeast Regional Climate Hub (USDA) which will keep things running for the next year.  We appreciate it!  If you are interested in learning more about what they do, check out their web page at https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/serch/.

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