Climate and Ag in the news
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The Packer reported this week that cold temperatures and rain in the Southeast have delayed harvest and discolored peppers in Florida and decreased yields in cucumbers, eggplant and squash. In the Northeast, icy roads slowed the movement of trucks through the region. In California, fires and mudslides caused problems for crops like avocados and shut…
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While this is only tangentially related to climate, it’s an interesting story about avocados anyway. Atlas Obscura provides another quirky tale of odd things from the past. In this case, how avocados developed and spread with the help of giant and now extinct giant land sloths. You can read the story here.
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Outside magazine had an interesting article about the snow drought in the West. In spite of recent rains that have caused fatal mudslides in parts of California, the mountains out west overall have received only 29% of their normal snowfall. This could bode poorly for water supplies in spring and into next summer, when irrigators…
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The National Centers for Environment Information has a new series of articles describing the value of some of the products that they put out. Here is a recent one on the value of the Drought Monitor. You can read it here.
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According to an article today in Southeast Farm Press, the Arctic cold that invaded the Southeast in the last few weeks has done good things for farmers. After a couple of warm winters, the frigid air will help to kill nematodes, whiteflies, and other cold-sensitive pests that were a real problem this past growing season.…
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As I was checking my social media this morning, I ran across a couple of articles which contained some good online resources you might find useful or interesting. You’ve probably seen some of these resources already if you follow my Facebook or Twitter feeds, because I often retweet or share from these sites. NorthGeorgiaWx.com has…
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For the first time, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has maps of temperature and precipitation anomalies available by counties. In the past you could get it by state, region, and climate division, but nothing smaller. This might be useful for those who are interested in county statistics rather than using station data, since…