Climate and Ag in the news
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina noted this week that “the map on the front page of the NC Drought Management Advisory Council (DMAC) website, which serves as the official drought designation for North Carolina, is different than the weekly US Drought Monitor (USDM) map.” This happens from time to time when the assessment…
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The Southeast Farm Press published a story yesterday from Lenny Wells of UGA discussing the impacts of the unusually warm winter on this year’s pecan crop. He expects that most buds will break dormancy in the next couple of weeks. The most likely problems will be with decreased pollination and susceptibility to a late frost.…
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The latest CoCoRaHS blog summarizes the 2016-2017 winter season that just ended as “the winter that mostly wasn’t.” If you live anywhere in the eastern half of the country, your temperature this season was well above normal, and even quite a bit of the western US with the exception of the Pacific Northwest was above…
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The Southeast Farm Press reported today that the official pack date for Vidalia onions is earlier than usual this year due to the warm weather that has been occurring across the eastern US. The official pack date this year has been set for April 12; Vidalia onions cannot be packed or sold prior to the this date.…
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Reuters and other news agencies noted that an Argentine research station on the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula set a new continental record high of 63.5 F on March 24, 2015, but said that the data was not officially recognized until it was recently reviewed, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The heat record for…
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From Jared Rackley, former UGA graduate student and now working for the NWS in Louisiana: Still think the Farmers’ Almanac is reliable? How did that “Penetrating Cold and Very Wet” winter work out for you? As March begins, meteorological winter (Dec.-Feb.) comes to an end. This winter was not only unseasonably warm across much of…
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March 1 marks the beginning of spring for climatologists–if you’re an astronomer, you will have to wait until later this month. Dr. Marshall Shepherd describes why we use March 1 as the start of spring in his Forbes.com blog here. Wednesday will feel like spring across the Southeast, including a chance for severe weather, so…