Climate and Ag in the news
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The latest ENSO outlook issued by IRI at Columbia University today shows that the chance of returning to a La Nina in fall after a summer of neutral conditions has increased. Their official probabilistic forecast shows that La Nina is likely to return by the October through December period. You can read their report at…
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I was shopping at the grocery store this week and found my first Georgia peaches of the year packed and ready to go. The ones I bought were a little small and firm, but they look and taste good. Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week quoting UGA Extension agent Jeff Cook…
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The recent dry conditions have caused a lot of problems for forage and pasture, and have delayed the planting of some final cotton and peanut fields, although those conditions are finally easing. But dry conditions are good for some crops that are irrigated, because the lack of moisture reduces the development of many diseases that…
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Time magazine had an interesting story on the history of the invention of the thermometer that you might enjoy. It includes information on how the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales were developed and how Galileo invented a precursor of the thermometer called the thermoscope. You can read it here.
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If you are reading the digest version of this blog, you will probably see it on Sunday, June 6. That date is the anniversary of D-Day, the invasion at Normandy Beach. I had the privilege of visiting there in 1980 and camped near the beach as part of a tour of Europe after college. It…
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Even though the official Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1, and we have already had one named storm (Ana), June is usually not a time for a lot of hurricane development. Most storms that do occur form over the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, although as we saw in May, we get the…
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On June 1, 1991, the UGA Weather Station in Griffin, GA, made its first weather report. Since that time 30 years ago, the network has grown from 4 to 86 stations across the state. Each station reports temperature, precipitation, wind, humidity, solar radiation, pressure, and soil moisture and temperature at three depths. This information has…