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The latest Crop Production Report from the National Ag Statistics Service was released today and shows that many crop yields in the Southeast are expected to be significantly larger than last year, especially peaches, which suffered from lack of chill hours and a late frost last year. In some cases,…
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If you’ve been following news about the record-setting California wildfires this summer, you may have heard that wildfires in California are increasing due to more droughts due to climate change. However, when you look at the data, the statistics are a bit more nuanced. Cliff Mass of the University of…
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Corn yields in North Carolina should be down this year after a challenging start to the year according to the Southeast Farm Press here. Wet and cold conditions in spring made planting and establishment of the corn plants tough, and dry and hot weather this summer have stressed the plants….
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While here in the Southeast we’ve had plenty of rain this year, out west is a different story. The drought in Texas and the Southwest has caused a lot of problems for livestock producers, including water supplies drying up and lack of food. You can read more about the impacts…
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Would you like to know more about how the weather works? Here is a new four-week online course on the weather offered by the University of Exeter and the Royal Meteorological Society in Great Britain. In it you will learn the basics of atmospheric science with demonstrations of fronts and…
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What do you think makes for a “nice” day? Do you like cool and pretty or warm and breezy? While everyone has their own unique favorite weather pattern, using a combination of days within a certain temperature and humidity range, the number of days with sunshine, and some other factors,…
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NASA has a useful web site which describes how sea level is measured and how future rises of sea level are projected using both current data and computer simulations. If you live near the coast you might be especially interested in learning more. You can view it at https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/projections/overview.
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