Climate and Ag in the news
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If you watch a lot of disaster movies, you might sometimes wonder where they got information about the events that they used as the premise of the movies. Films like Volcano, Titanic, Twister and Twisters, Earthquake, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, and many others are based in some way on science, although some more…
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The regional climate centers, including the Southeast Regional Climate Center which provides a variety of weather and climate data as well as other services, are due to be shut down on April 17 due to the significant budget cuts to NOAA and the move away from climate services. Funding for the centers is working its…
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If you are like me, this time of year brings a lot of sneezing, itchy eyes, and coughing as the “pollening” begins. It usually starts with tree pollen like pine and oak and then switches to flowers, grass, and other plant pollens. As the earth’s temperature gets warmer, we are seeing changes to the growing…
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Golfers who have played golf at Augusta National this week have noticed changes to the course related to Hurricane Helene. Augusta was hit very hard by winds on the right side of Helene and that has apparently caused severe tree loss on the course. These impacts have changed the way some holes can be played.…
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Back in February, Growing Produce published this story about the cost of extreme weather and drought to farmers across the country. I ran across it this week and thought it was worth mentioning here because it is the most comprehensive accounting of agricultural damage for the US as a whole. Note that the dataset they…
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I grew up in Grand Rapids, MI, which always seemed to have gray skies, especially in the winter when winds from the west brought in lake effect cloud cover from Lake Michigan. But my memories are mild compared to life in this collection of cities around the world which are much cloudier than my home…
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I can’t recall whether I posted the proposed hurricane names for this year so here I go just in case. EarthSky posted a story about the names for this year here. The story includes some history about when hurricanes were first given names and what storm names were retired in 2024 (hint: there are three).…