Climate and Ag in the news
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As expected, Alberto has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to impact the Southeast in the next few days. It is designated a subtropical storm because it has some characteristics that are different than a typical tropical storm, but will have the same types of impacts on us. The map below shows…
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I read an interesting story this week in Business Alabama about Alabama irrigation. Did you know that only 10% of Alabama agriculture is irrigated compared to 50% in Georgia and 60% in Mississippi? I always wondered why, and this article explained it. It is a combination of deeper aquifers which require more costly wells to…
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While we had a lot of cold weather in the eastern US this past winter, out west they had warm and dry conditions (the third warmest on record). One of the biggest impacts of this weather was to ski resorts, who lost a lot of business because they did not receive much snow. The results…
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One year ago today a group of experts from around the State of Georgia met together to identify a list of 40 key questions on how climate trends are impacting and/or will impact Georgia in the future. Today the Georgia Climate Project released their Climate Research Roadmap listing these questions and why they are important.…
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The latest issue of NOAA’s “Beyond the Data” blog has an interesting story about the history of the cooperative observer network, the backbone of long-term climate observations across the US. Did you ever wonder how the US has a climate record going back at least 125 years? How do we know what happened before that?…
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Early reports on blueberries in North Carolina indicate that farmers there are expecting good yields of berries in spite of cold weather and frost in the first quarter of 2018, according to a report published this week by Southeast Farm Press here. North Carolina is the 6th largest producer of blueberries in the US. The…
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Now that the Atlantic hurricane season of 2018 is almost underway, you might be interested in how hurricane names are chosen and to see the list for this year. EarthSky provides the information here. Atlantic hurricane names are: Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael,…