Climate and Ag in the news
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Just in time for the latest heat way, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center announced a new interactive heat index map for the US which shows the average number of hours with the heat index above several thresholds. This is available for the first order weather stations at the larger airports. You can view it at…
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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Eunice Foote, one of the first scientists to study climate science and start to understand how carbon dioxide can affect earth’s atmosphere. My colleague Dr. Marshall Shepherd wrote a blog post about Foote in today’s Forbes.com. In the article he says: What exactly did Eunice Foote…
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The Conversation had an interesting article this week looking at how yields of different crops are changing as the climate is getting warmer. Over the globe, yields are decreasing under warmer conditions, but it varies from place to place. Regions that are farther north are benefiting from the warmer conditions by increasing the length of…
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A recent story making the rounds online tries to pair cities by taking one city (for example London) and looking at its projected 2050 temperature to find another city with a current climate that matches what London’s is expected to be according to climate projections. The city London was paired with was Barcelona in Spain.…
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NOAA’s Climate blog posted a story earlier this week on the increase that has been seen in the US (and elsewhere) in heavy precipitation events. As warmer temperatures allow more moisture to evaporate into the air, it becomes “juicier” and more likely to produce heavy rain in downpours. This trend is likely to continue in…
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The circulation that drifted south off the coast from Georgia is now slowly gaining structure and is expected to become Tropical Storm Barry within the next day. Very warm water in the eastern Gulf will help the circulation spin up to a TS and potentially even a hurricane if it moves westward over the warm…
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From 2012 to 2018 I worked as a grant-funded agricultural climatologist on USDA-funded projects looking at the impacts of the changing climate on agriculture in the Southeast. There are a lot of negative impacts that are expected in the future due to warmer temperatures (especially nighttime temperatures), higher humidity, and more frequent floods and droughts,…