Climate and Ag in the news
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A wintertime megaflood in California could turn out to be the worst natural disaster in U.S. history by far, and we are making it much more likely, according to an alarming study published this week in Nature Climate Change and described by Eric Holthaus in Grist.org in late April. This could be the first trillion-dollar weather disaster…
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This week is Hurricane Awareness Week at many National Weather Service offices. You can see a lot of their tips for preparing for the upcoming Atlantic tropical season by following your local NWS office on social media. Here is one PDF slide set from the NWS office in Charleston SC which describes some of the…
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Sea levels along the Carolina coasts are rising at the rate of about an inch a year. This is much faster than scientists expected it to rise, and it is causing a lot of problems with flooding on days when there is no flooding caused by weather events, just by unusually high tides like king…
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While chill hours this winter provided plenty of needed cold weather for peaches, combination of extremely warm weather in February and two separate frosts in March obliterated the peach crop in northern Florida this year, according to the Northwest District newsletter released today. Unfortunately, 2017 was also a loss for peach production there due to…
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The latest reading of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii shows that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has now passed 410 parts per million. This is a level that has not been seen on earth in at least the last 800,000 years according to data from ocean and ice cores. As…
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MarketWatch posted a story at the end of April presenting the results of a recent study published in Science which describes the expected economic hits to Gross Domestic Product which states are expected to experience as a result of changing climate. According to the study, Florida is expected to have the highest impact, a loss…
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The next Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and we may see an early start to it this year because the Gulf of Mexico is warmer than usual, providing good energy for storm formation. The NWS National Hurricane Center has announced some changes to their hurricane forecasts for this upcoming season, including the shrinking…