Climate and Ag in the news
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If you like to look at historical paintings, you may notice that they often provide information about the local weather or climate, especially if they are landscape paintings. Art historians have noticed that portrayals of nature have changed over time in response to the changing climate. For example, a painting of a glacier may reveal…
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We’ve had an early start to the 2020 Atlantic tropical season, with two named storms before the season even officially started. There is a 50 percent chance of a third storm developing in the Atlantic in the next 48 hours. This has never happened before in the records we have for hurricanes going back to…
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In spite of all the rain parts of the Southeast have had this year, there are areas that are quite dry and where producers are having to irrigate. But irrigating where it is not needed wastes water and energy to pump, so you want to make sure you are watering appropriately. Here are a couple…
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Here’s an interesting chart which shows how billion-dollar weather disasters change by month across the US (you can also break it down by regions and states). You probably will not be surprised to see that winter storm damage is highest in winter, freeze events in spring, and drought in summer. But the chart is still…
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While folks in the Southeast watch the end of TS Bertha and look ahead to the impending Atlantic tropical season, tropical cyclones have already been causing misery in other parts of the world. Last Wednesday Super Cyclone Amphan (a category 5 storm) moved north from the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the coasts…
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In a surprise to many meteorologists, Tropical Storm Bertha formed just off the coast of South Carolina as it was coming onshore. Overnight last night the National Hurricane Center said that it had only a 30 percent chance of development, but by 7:30 Wednesday morning it was bumped up to 70 percent, and by 8:30…
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In today’s webinar (recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWnEtfS6gVk&feature=youtu.be) on climate conditions in the ACF river basin in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, discussed some recent changes in the temperature profile of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Over the last month, the ocean temperature distribution has started to look much more like a La…