Climate and Ag in the news
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The drought in southern Florida has allowed large areas of the Everglades to dry out even more than usual in this dry season. The result: fires are increasing and causing issues for peat, which is getting so dry that it burns easily. This results in air quality problems and hampers the ongoing restoration of the…
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According to reports in Vegetable and Specialty Crop News, Georgia peaches are expected to do well this year overall. There were plenty of chill hours for the early blooming varieties, although some of the later blooming varieties which need more chill hours may have been a little short this year after a warm winter without…
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The latest 3-day outlook from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center indicates that most of Georgia and Alabama along with parts of Mississippi and Florida have a moderate chance of severe weather on Thursday, April 23, 2020. While the models don’t agree on the timing yet, it looks like it may be a little earlier than the…
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According to Clint Thompson in the Vegetable and Specialty Crop News, this year’s Vidalia onion crop is good but onions are smaller than usual due to adverse weather conditions. Producers were hit by hail, wet conditions and even a tornado, which reduced yields as well as sizes, but demand is up due to shortages of…
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The North Carolina Climate Office posted an article today putting the April 13th tornado outbreak of 2020 (which occurred across the Southeast) in historical context. North Carolina reported 16 tornadoes in the outbreak from a total of 132 tornadoes across the Southeast, which is one of the days with the highest numbers in their state’s…
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A new study published in Science recently combined tree ring measurements and model output for the US West to show that the recent string of 18 years of drought were the worst experienced in the region since at least the 1500s and the second driest since the 800s. The scientists attribute about half the dryness…
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A new product forecasting grassland production is now available for the Great Plains. While it is not yet available for the Southeast, the authors have plans to expand it to other areas of the country in the future so I thought you might like to have a quick glance at it. It uses the Climate…