Climate and Ag in the news
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The latest blog post from Deke Arndt in Climate.gov’s Beyond the Data discusses the state-by-state extremes in weather reported by the National Centers for Environmental Information. These include tidbits like the lowest low temperature, the highest high, the biggest hailstone, the strongest wind, etc. Are all of these records reliable? How do we know? Read the…
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According to The Guardian, this winter has been one of the least sunny winters in history in Europe, with many places only receiving a few hours of direct sunlight this month. That is a small fraction of what they normally get. I can remember very cloudy winters in western Michigan when I was growing up…
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CompassLive, the blog of the USDA’s Forest Service Southern Research Station, has an interesting post describing how precipitation patterns are changing over time at the Coweeta Hydrologic Lab in western North Carolina. They have records going back to 1934 and were able to look at the patterns in comparison to several weather/climate patterns like El…
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Atlas Obscura has another interesting story this week about a small park near St. Louis filled with four pecan trees that survived the 1993 floods. When the area was rebuilt after the flood, the community protected the 100-year-old trees with a new levee and a park to protect them. You can read more about it…
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I don’t usually post financial news on this blog, but this post from Clark Howard struck me as something that some folks in the Southeast might need to know. Here’s what the post says: “People who experienced an income drop as a result of living in a hurricane disaster area during 2017 will be encouraged…
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This is from the “You Don’t See This Every Day” category…BBC is reporting that a runaway cow in Poland has joined up with a herd of bison and is hanging out with them over the winter, although she seems to be hanging onto the edge of the herd rather than being incorporated into it. This…
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Here is a fun tool from the New York Times. You type in your city (there are 3800 possibilities) and see a daily record of high and low temperature and monthly accumulated precipitation, with annotations for records. I have it set to Atlanta but you can easily check your own city. Try it at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/21/world/year-in-weather.html#atl.