Climate and Ag in the news
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There have been a lot of stories about climate in the news this week. Here are a sprinkling of the most interesting ones. Science: Butterflies are vanishing in the western U.S.—but not for the reasons scientists thought CBS News: Humans, not nature, may be changing Atlantic hurricane cycles Yale Climate Connections: U.S. dams, levees get…
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It’s March, and that means that it is time for the annual competition to sign up new observers for CoCoRaHS, the citizen science network for precipitation measurements. Every year we have a friendly competition between states to see who can sign up the most new observers. Today, the North Carolina Climate Office posted a great…
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This week is the average peak season for flooding in Georgia, and the National Weather Service office is marking this week as the 2021 Flood Safety Preparation Week. Flooding kills more people than any other kind of severe weather, and most of it is caused by poor behavior when people drive their cars over flooded…
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If you’ve been reading this blog for long enough, you know that March is the month that we go cuckoo for CoCoRaHS! For those who don’t know, the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network is a group of citizen scientists who collect daily rainfall using an official CoCoRaHS rain gauge and report it on…
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I’ve heard many complaints about this year’s winter forecast and how far off it was. Here is an excellent discussion of how seasonal forecasts are made and how they can be off. They show that for what we knew in November, a typical La Nina pattern was the most reasonable forecast. The things that changed…
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UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant are offering a new free online class on designing rain gardens for coastal Georgia. It will be held on March 13 from 10 am to noon online. Rain gardens are designed to manage stormwater runoff to reduce flooding and improve water quality. The class is designed for homeowners,…
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Today is March 1, and that means that it is now climatological spring. What a crazy winter it has been! Climatologists tie the start of spring to the beginning March for a number of reasons. Originally it was done for convenience when people had to do their climate average calculations by hand, but now you…