I love to look at satellite pictures as well as astronomy images and other imagery from NASA. Today they announced that they are making their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free, which will allow all of us to enjoy their striking photos and videos of stars, auroras, hurricanes,…
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Here is a useful site for farmers concerned with the impacts of harmful weather on their crops. USDA has a page which collects information on programs to help farmers recover from drought, hurricanes and other severe weather at https://www.farmers.gov/. If you are a farmer or work with them, this might…
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If you use a weather app on your smartphone to see what the weather is expected to be like today, you may notice from time to time that the app is a complete bust and the forecast is dead wrong. If you compare forecasts from different weather apps, you may…
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The latest report on Georgia’s pecan harvest shows that this year’s harvest is better than last year’s, when Hurricane Michael dropped many nuts and destroyed huge numbers of pecan trees. However, this year’s production is still only about half of what it was prior to Hurricane Michael, and it is…
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A friend passed along this story about a beautiful covering of rime ice along Skyline Drive west of Washington DC. Rime ice is formed when the air is cool and moist and when the temperature drops to below freezing super-cooled water droplets condense right on contact with the cold trees….
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If you are a producer worried about freezing temperatures and their impacts on fruits and vegetables, you might want to look for information about an upcoming workshop that IFAS is holding on November 19 in Lake County. Information on topics covered plus registration information is available at https://fruitgrowersnews.com/news/growers-prepare-for-winter-weather-with-uf-ifas-extension/.
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The BBC produced a short timeline which describes some of the important events in expanding our knowledge of how humans are changing climate, going back to 1712 and the invention of the first steam engine that used coal and 1824, the first scientific mention of the earth’s natural greenhouse effect….
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