Climate and Ag in the news
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What to do when your citrus grove is devastated by citrus greening? One citrus grove owner in Palm City, FL, found an alternate use for his land. The owner was originally going to turn the land into “ranchettes” but an offer from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection encouraged them to instead turn it into…
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The federal government is in the process of updating their estimates of the 100-year storm across most of the United States. This is a good thing, because the last time a complete estimate of the 100-year storm (or more accurately, the amount of rainfall that has a 1 in 100 chance of occurring in any…
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In all of the holiday hubbub, you may have missed these stories about the awful air pollution plaguing Indian cities like New Delhi. While a lot of the recent record-setting high particulate levels have been coming from a dust storm, normal traffic, cooking and other fuel use dumps massive number of unhealthy particles into the…
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Unfortunately for those in the Southeast who like snow, a La Niña winter is not a great harbinger of a snowy season, since we tend to be warmer and drier than usual. But even though the Southeast may not be blessed by the white stuff (and the chances are not zero in most of the…
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The NWS Office in Peachtree City GA has announced the end of their frost and freeze warnings for this year. Here is their statement: “The Frost/Freeze Program has ended for north and central Georgia. The program at NWS Peachtree City is in effect until an area has observed a hard freeze (28 degrees) or November…
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NOAA and NASA have been trying for several days to launch their new joint satellite, the JPSS, but have been stymied by bad launch weather. Early this morning the bird finally flew and is headed to a polar orbit that will cover the globe twice each 24 hours. You can read more about how scientists…
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Here’s a new toy you can play with to see how agricultural losses as measured by crop insurance claims vary from year to year and state to state. It’s an interactive map viewer by the USDA Southwest Climate Hub, and allows you to dig down to the county level to see variations by crop as…