Climate and Ag in the news
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What a crazy year it has been so far for temperatures! Here is the thermograph for Blairsville, which is one of the coldest spots in Georgia, with a black horizontal bar at 32 F. It shows that they had a warm winter and almost a month of temperatures above freezing from mid-March to early April…
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This weekend is going to bring colder than normal temperatures across most of the Eastern US. Snow is likely to occur in northern locations and perhaps even in the Appalachian Mountains, as it did earlier this week in a few locations in the Southeast. Temperatures should be very cold for May, especially on Sunday morning…
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As the global temperatures have been rising, the ranges in which different crops can grow have also changed. Corn and soybeans are two of the crops that are spreading north into areas where they did not previously grow. In the case of corn, increases in precipitation and humidity may also be allowing it to grow…
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Yale Climate Connections had an interesting story this week about how warmer ocean temperatures and more acidification are affecting folks who harvest clams along the Georgia coast. The producer interviewed in the radio story said that every time their production area closes, he loses three weeks of income waiting for things to clear up. He…
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The UGA Weather Network has 86 sites around Georgia. One of them is at Mixon Farms near Waycross. I was saddened to read this story in Vegetable and Specialty Crop News today. The storms that passed through southern Georgia last week dropped tornadoes and hail as they moved through the area. One of the storms…
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Yesterday I wrote about the possibility of colder temperatures over the next few days, leading to problems with germination for recently planted seeds. But I did not really know how that worked. Today I read a related article in the Southeast Farm Press which provides more details about how the cold soil temperatures affect the…
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(Short answer–probably not.) As part of this week’s special awareness week for the upcoming hurricane season, the State of Georgia Climate Office put together this graph showing the number of hurricanes which affected Georgia by decade. You can see when you look at it that over the last 50 years Georgia has experienced fewer hurricanes…