Climate and Ag in the news
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Reports of impacts of Sally on agriculture in the Southeast continue to come in. While the rain from Sally was mostly beneficial in Georgia, softening soils ahead of peanut digging and providing moisture to dry pastures, it caused more damage in coastal Florida where extreme winds and rain devastated farm fields there. Here are a…
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This week is Deaf Awareness Week. In recognition of the importance of getting severe weather warnings to all citizens, NOAA has put together this list of resources for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, including information on NOAA weather radios with visual and vibrating alarms. You can check it out at https://www.weather.gov/wrn/dhh-safety.
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We are coming up on the autumnal equinox, which occurs this year on September 22 at 9:31 am EDT. You can learn more about what an equinox is by reading this story from EarthSky, a great source of astronomy-related (and sometimes atmosphere-related) news. This marks the beginning of astronomical fall (climatological fall began on September…
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Folks around the Southeast are starting to assess the damage from Hurricane Sally as it crept onshore yesterday and moved off to the northeast through central Georgia. Because of the slow forward movement of the storm, parts of the coast were subjected to hours of hurricane-force wind which caused problems for cotton and pecans. Heavy…
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How does your property insurance cover severe weather? Or does it? There are often policy statements that can limit or deny coverage for certain kinds of damage caused by extreme weather. If you live in an area that is affected by severe weather (which is almost all of us), then you need to understand what…
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A recent Farm Press article gives a good description of how Hurricane Sally is expected to affect crops in Alabama. Cotton and pecans are the most likely to be affected because they are still a month from harvest and need good conditions to reach harvest successfully. The heavy rain and winds are likely to cause…
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While all of us are watching the progress of Hurricane Sally carefully and considering how much rain it might drop, here is some advice from Farm Press about the rise in heat-related illnesses after a major disaster in the South when power is out for long time periods. Lack of air conditioning in areas where…