Climate and Ag in the news
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As I was looking at my Facebook feed, it reminded me of a photo I took out my office window in 2014 showing the trees outside in their fall colors. This year, the color is barely showing yet. A lot of that can be attributed to the extremely warm September we had. Here are a…
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Many farmers in the region have been negatively affected by the dry conditions that were growing across the Southeast until the recent rainfall. In spite of that, they were hard at work trying to harvest crops. In some cases, the dry weather even helped them accomplish their harvest more quickly. This article from Southeast Ag…
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Yale Environment 360 has a really interesting article which describes some of the ways that climate zones are shifting on earth. This has profound implications for agriculture as well as ecosystems because the climate zones (defined by a combination of temperature and precipitation characteristics) determine the kinds of crops you can grow and when you…
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Because of the drought that has been affecting the Southeast, including most of Georgia, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division declared a Level 1 drought response for 103 counties in the state. A Level 1 Drought Response does not require specific watering restrictions beyond what is normally in place but requires that water utilities will circulate…
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Small tornadoes can be a problem in land-falling tropical systems, and Nestor was no exception. Damage from several tornadoes was observed in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina as the storm passed. The Weather Channel has a good article summarizing the damage from Nestor, including the tornadoes, which you can view at https://weather.com/news/news/2019-10-19-tropical-storm-nestor-florida-tornado-georgia-carolinas.
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The latest track of Tropical Storm Nestor just came out at 11 pm EDT, and shows that the center of Nestor is likely to make landfall early tomorrow morning, just two or three hours after my blog digest comes out. Nestor is a lopsided storm, so a lot of the rain will be out ahead…
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Measurements of sea level across the world show rising waters along most ocean coastlines, including the United States. But according to a story by WRLN in Miami, the regular forecasts for high and low tide do not take that rising water into account yet, leading to bigger errors in tide forecasts than would normally be…