Climate and Ag in the news
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The New York Times published a really interesting story and map of where repeated disasters have occurred across the US from 2002 to 2017, as measured by zip codes where federal disaster assistance has been provided. You can read the story here. One of the things that I find interesting and puzzling about the map…
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NOAA released a new climatology of hurricanes today, just in time for the start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. This climatology looked at satellite images of hurricanes and tropical storms and used optical recognition to categorize the storms by the presence and size of eyes. They compared this information to known data…
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Extension Agent Jeff Cook has an interesting post on what all the recent rainfall is doing to crops, including peanuts and peaches, in central Georgia. You can read it on the Three Rivers Ag News blog site at https://site.extension.uga.edu/threerivers/2018/05/much-needed-rain/.
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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.…