Climate and Ag in the news
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The fall colors of the trees in my neighborhood in Georgia are really starting to come out, although they are not nearly as close to peak as those in the Southern Appalachian Mountains shown in Facebook images that my friends are posting as they travel up to the northeast this weekend. Fall is one of…
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One of the biggest surprises to me during this past Atlantic hurricane season was just how good the forecast models were. One of the biggest surprises was the new (to me) Google DeepMind AI model, which did an amazing job of forecasting the path of the storms this year and did well at predicting intensity…
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I was surprised to read on Facebook today that the Farmers’ Almanac is stopping publication after the 2026 Almanac after publishing continuously since 1818. They did not give a reason for stopping as far as I can tell. While scientists generally don’t consider their weather and climate forecasts to be particularly accurate (they have been…
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UGA Pecan Specialist Lenny Wells wrote a blog post earlier this week describing the impacts of this summer and fall’s weather on the current pecan crop. According to his post, “The issues we are facing are the result of three different factors–1) excessive summer rain, leading to scab in some places and conditioning trees to…
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Now that Hurricane Melissa has moved out of the region, farmers there are starting to assess the incredible losses that they are experiencing from the devastating storm. I have not seen many actual numbers yet because it takes time to do a complete assessment of the losses, as we know from our own experiences with…
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Here’s a different way to depict the increase of the earth over time. According to the creator, Harlan Brothers, his YouTube video presents “a visualization and sonification of global temperature anomalies over land. The deviations are based on the average temperature from 1950 to 1980. Each note (and point on the graph) represents one month.…
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While the Gulf has been completely quiet this Atlantic tropical season so far, there has been plenty of activity in other parts of the Atlantic. This week, Major Hurricane Melissa is on track to make a direct hit on the island nation of Jamaica, with landfall projected to occur on Tuesday morning potentially as a…