Climate and Ag in the news
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Scientific American has an interesting short article today about links between the record warm Arctic temperatures and the jet streams which affect our weather patterns here in the US. You might enjoy reading it. The link is at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arctic-is-getting-crazy/.
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I am not a Twitter user, since I spend too much time on social media already, but if you are and you enjoy weather content, you should check out this list of the best 100 weather- and climate-related feeds on Twitter. You will recognize several of the sites, since I steal from use their Facebook…
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Deke Arndt of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information provided the following interesting commentary about one of the graphs in the national climate summary that came out yesterday: As far as temperatures go, and especially “extreme” temperatures go, minimum temperatures (a.k.a. “Tmin”, “morning lows”, “overnight lows”, etc.) are increasing more than maximum temperatures (a.k.a. “afternoon…
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Even though it hit 70 F in Athens today and warm temperatures dominated conditions in the Southeast today, I was interested to read this list of the ten worst all-time ice storms in the US from Weather Underground. You may have lived through some of them yourself, since several were in the Southeast. You can…
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The recent rains on the West Coast have caused many of the rivers there to flood, threatening many cities as well as cropland. Levees are being overtopped and mudslides and fallen trees are blocking roads through the region. You can read more about the impacts of the storm and view pictures of the conditions at…
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Bloomberg News posted a report based on the annual climate summary from NOAA describing the 15 billion dollar weather and climate disasters that hit the US in 2016, costing $46 billion and killing at least 138 people. Many of the disasters this year were due to flooding, including those from Hurricane Matthew, the unnamed Louisiana…
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The heavy rain and snow that has been occurring along the West Coast has caused problems for onion handlers in Idaho and Oregon, according to The Packer this week. Deep snow on top of packing and storage facilities was then saturated by rain, which added enough weight to the onion packing structures to cause them…