Climate and Ag in the news
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Atlas Obscura posted a story about the Indian Monsoon Palace this week. It was originally an astronomical observatory where weather and the monsoon were also tracked. Later it became a location for Octopussy, a famous James Bond movie. The story reminded me of one of my favorite books, “Chasing the Monsoon: A Modern Pilgrimage Through…
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“Sunny day flooding” is a term for flooding that occurs when no rain is falling. It could occur when rain falls upstream of an area and the streamflow from that rain overflows the banks of the stream. In this article, it is flooding that is occurring from rising sea levels along the coast of Florida…
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Growing Georgia published a timely look at the crop conditions for Georgia corn and peanuts this week. In spite of the rainy conditions, southern rust this year is quite low. This may be due to changes this year in the wind patterns which bring the spores up from the tropics. Some of the earliest planted corn…
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If you love to look at the stars in the night sky, you have no doubt been frustrated that you can’t always see very many where you live, especially if you live in an urban area. This new interactive map helps show you where the darkest places in the world can be found. In the…
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The Supreme Court of the United States issued its last statement of the season on the Georgia-Florida “water wars” case, which has been ongoing between the two states for a number of years. In the ruling, which you can find at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/142%20orig_h3ci.pdf, the five majority justices sent the case back to the Special Master who had…
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One of the tragedies of lightning storms is that sometimes when lightning hits a tree, injury or death can occur to anything below that tree, including cattle that have taken shelter from the storm. A recent story about one such event prompted this article from Drovers Newsletter about the odd comments received on social media…
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The Packer posted a story this week about problems that watermelon producers are having with production this year due to the heavy rains they have experienced. Wet fields have hampered planting of seedlings and rains every 2-3 days have prevented application of needed chemicals to the young plants. You can read more here.