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Do you think the humidity has been high this year? We certainly see the impacts of high dewpoint temperatures in night-time lows, which have been much above normal this summer. Dennis Mercereau of DAMWeather has done an interesting analysis of humidity conditions in the Eastern US this year and discovered…
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Scientific American recently published an article about a new study that looked at how different forests around the world handle drought. What they found was that forests that have a large variety of different tree species were more resilient in a drought than forests with few different types of trees….
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A new scientific study described in a recent article in Scientific American looked at the impacts of raising livestock in a hot climate. The research determined that hogs raised in hot conditions gained less weight and muscle, reducing the amount of meat produced. At the same time, fertility goes down,…
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An analysis of the deaths that have occurred due to Hurricane Florence by the Los Angeles Times shows that more than half of the victims of the storm died while in their cars. Most were due to drowning after the cars drove past barriers or were swamped by rising water,…
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With all the rain we’ve had in the Southeast, you may have missed the tremendous floods that were occurring in Wisconsin this summer. Dairy farmers there are suffering from the impacts of all that flooding, including contaminated or moldy feed. The State of Wisconsin issued a warning to their farmers…
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The Southeast Farm Press published an article today that said the losses to agriculture due to the wind, storm surge and flooding of Hurricane Florence have been estimated at $125 million to South Carolina alone. Since flooding is still going on there, and in some cases the water is still…
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With the start of fall, many of us start to think about trees changing color and where to see their glory. Weather always plays a factor in how the colors look in any given year, and this year is no exception. Colors in the Northeast are expected to be great,…
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