Climate and Ag in the news
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The strong El Niño is expected to dominate the climate of the Southeast (and the United States as a whole) over the next few months, although it has been slow to start this fall and winter. That means a strong subtropical jet across southern parts of GA and AL and northern FL, bringing rainy weather…
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If you are interested in out-of-the-ordinary weather, you might be interested in this recent article about places that have unusual weather conditions: Where to Experience the World’s Most Unusual Weather Phenomena — Daily Passport. There is also a good list of unusual weather conditions that are not tied to a particular location from the National…
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Even though the Atlantic basin had an active season this year, we had very little impact in the Southeast other than Hurricanes Idalia and Ophelia. The lack of tropical rain was a benefit to Vidalia onion growers who are growing their seedbeds for next year. Since the seedbeds are under irrigation, they don’t want additional…
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If you work with children and are looking for lesson ideas, The Nature Conservancy has some curricula in their Nature Lab that you might find useful at https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-work/youth-engagement/nature-lab/. They include information by age level and cover things like regenerative agriculture, climate change, and sustainable food production.
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The yield of this year’s cotton has been all over the place depending on the timing and amount of rain that fell on the fields. According to this article in Southeast Farm Press, spring conditions were so wet in some places that the cotton was slow to develop a top crop. Later, dry conditions reduced…
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Today is the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Many media outlets have stories about the invasion and its impacts on World War II. Here is an interesting story posted by Click On Detroit on how the weather played a role in the the Japanese decision to start the attack. The weather also…
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For those of you who like to read about the intricacies of the atmosphere, you may be interested in taking a look at NOAA’s new Polar Vortex Blog. Like the ENSO blog, it will go into depth about how the Polar Vortex is affecting our local weather. This time of year the Polar Vortex can…