Climate and Ag in the news
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This time of year we are subjected to all sorts of lists of the best, worst, and most notable of the past year. Summaries of the past year’s events are also posted frequently. Weather and climate are no exception. Here is a collection of “highlights of 2022” focused on US or world weather and climate…
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We are very excited in the UGA Atmospheric Sciences program to have access to a brand-new radar system that we have purchased jointly with Georgia Tech. It will fill in an area of northeast Georgia that is not well-covered by current National Weather Services radars and will also serve as a teaching tool for our…
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Drought in England has led to extremely low reservoir levels and concerns about whether they are likely to rise enough to support fruit and vegetable farming next year, according to a recent story in The Guardian. Farmers are considering their crop rotations for next year with an eye to reduced availability of water, and some…
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We’ve been watching the long-range forecasts for colder weather for a while now, and it looks like there is a good chance of frost and freezing weather for the next three days, with the coldest weather occurring on the morning of Tuesday, March 19. Freezing weather occurs when the temperature drops below 32 F and…
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Ferocious storms can churn up a lot of coastal terrain, and sometimes very strange things are found, like buried forests from the asteroid that caused the end of the age of dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Another of these events occurred in New Zealand with Cyclone Gabrielle, which hit the North Island along with Vanuatu…
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We are continuing to watch the El Nino begin to fade away in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, although there is still plenty of warm water there. Last year, while El Nino was growing, the strong jet kept most of the tropical storm development out over the very warm Atlantic Ocean, although we still experienced some…
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Now here’s a story you don’t see every day. According to this CBS Colorado report, “Two southeastern Colorado ranch owners were recently sentenced to pay $6.6 million to resolve federal charges that they damaged or altered rain gauges in an effort to get paid for worsening drought conditions. By preventing the rain gauges from accurately…
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Those of you who work with teens may be interested in this recent story by Yale Climate Connections on a new video game that helps teach teens how to navigate various weather disasters and how to stay calm — even amid confusion and chaos. I haven’t tried it out, but you might want to take…
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With the end of the official winter season, now is a good time to compare the winter outlooks for the Farmers’ Almanac and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. A quick look shows that the CPC did a much better job of depicting our wet and warm winter than either of the almanacs did. We don’t know…
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Every March, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (known as CoCoRaHS for short) hosts a competition between states to see which state can recruit the most new observers. In the past, they have called this March Madness, but after concerns about the college basketball tournament not looking kindly on that name, they have…