Climate and Ag in the news
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Meteorologists mostly study weather on the Earth, but there are planetary scientists who also study the atmosphere on other planets. In the past, this blog has posted pictures of a dust devil and cirrus clouds on Mars. Earlier this week, on June 15, 2023, NASA released this stunning image of a lightning bolt in Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
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One of the amazing things about the weather in the Southeast the past week or two is the amount of severe weather that we have seen in a month that usually does not have much. Especially notable has been the amount of large hail, which has caused severe damage to cotton, vegetable, and corn crops…
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This year’s summer solstice occurs on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in late morning. The solstice is the start of astronomical summer, although climatological summer starts June 1. You can read more at EarthSky through the link below.
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The latest monthly global climate summary was released by NOAA earlier this week. It shows that for the earth as a whole, May was the third warmest in records that date back to 1880. There was also a record-low amount of sea ice for May in the Antarctic, a big change from a few years…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office posted a report on the recent occurrence of skies filled with smoke from the Canadian wildfires and the problems it caused for air quality in their region. You can read it at Rapid Reaction: Smoky Skies Create Unhealthy Air Quality – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu).
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As promised, here are some recent stories about peaches from the Southeast and other production areas of the country. The peach harvest in Georgia was hit very hard this year, but other areas also were badly affected by weather. WABE: Georgia peach crop decimated by bad weather, warming climate Georgia Farm Bureau: Significant decline in…
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Over the last month or so I have accumulated a number of stories that you might be interested in. They are listed below. I will do a separate post on stories about peaches, since I have seen a number of them related to peaches in and out of the Southeast in the past couple of…
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