Climate and Ag in the news
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National Public Radio has an interesting story this week about recent impacts of rising sea level on one of the oldest farms in the US. The farm is located in the Eastern Shore of Maryland and was started by land grant in 1666, long before the US was even a country. Now rising sea levels…
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Since we are just starting out our 2018 hurricane season, now is the time to think about how you are going to handle this year’s potential tropical events. Here is a good article from AZFamily on five lessons that we learned from last year’s storms. While we are not expecting quite so active a season…
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Weather Underground had an interesting story a week ago about a terrible weather-related disaster that killed between 100,000 and 230,000 people in China in August 1975. Most of you have probably never heard about it since news reports in the US were quite thin. It’s especially timely this year because high rain amounts and a…
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This week’s research question from the Georgia Climate Project Roadmap comes from the section on agriculture. Since agriculture is the biggest industry in Georgia, the impacts of changing climate are going to hit our state’s economy hard but could also provide new opportunities for farmers to produce new crops or change their rotation strategies to…
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With almost three weeks of rain under our belts, and everything dripping with moisture, the next thing to expect from all the standing water are clouds of mosquitoes. Besides being a nuisance, they can also carry diseases like West Nile Virus or Zika. Because of this, it is important to minimize pools of water where…
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The rainy, humid and cloudy weather has had some detrimental effects on wine and table grapes in the Southeast. UGA grape specialist Cain Hickey describes some of the issues they are having in a blog post from earlier this week. You can read it at https://site.extension.uga.edu/viticulture/2018/05/what-a-long-strange-bloom-its-been/. His blog is a great source of grape-specific information for…
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If you follow this blog regularly, you know from previous posts that the meteorological seasons start at the beginning of months and not in mid-month as the astronomical calendar does. So June 1 marks the beginning of summer for meteorologists and climatologists. The choice of using the beginning of a calendar month is both practical…