Climate and Ag in the news

  • There will be a lot written about Hurricane Matthew in the coming weeks and years.  Here are some early summaries about records set by Matthew as well as review of some of the devastation caused by the store.  Many people are returning home to their coastal houses today to find out the fate of their…

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  • Even though Matthew has a long way to go before it leaves the Southeast, I thought I would share some stories I’ve seen on initial impacts on agriculture.  Of course, there will be a lot more information once the storm is gone and folks have time to do their assessments. AgWeb reported here that cotton…

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  • The New York Times ran an interesting article yesterday by a woman who lived through the direct passage of Hurricane Andrew west of Miami.  If you wondered what being in the direct path of an extreme storm was like, you will be interested in reading this.  You can find it at https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/hurricane-matthew-andrew-florida.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share.  I visited Miami ten…

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  • Here is a nice story map of Hurricane Matthew impacts put together by John Feldt of Blue Water Outlook.  It collects a number of different maps which shows the weather conditions surrounding Matthew into one web site.  You can see it at https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=703503d411274bee9285b5fac5ff70e9.

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  • USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced yesterday that PINEMAP (The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project) has received a 2016 Partnership Award for their Mission Integration of Research, Education and Extension.  The PINEMAP team from the University of Florida enabled Southern pine landowners to manage forests for increased carbon sequestration and adopt forest…

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  • As Matthew approaches the coast, you might be wondering how the storm compares to past hurricanes in the area.  CNN published an article today which described some of the previous hurricanes which moved through the same region and how they compare.  You can read it at https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/us/hurricane-matthew-comparisons/index.html.  Needless to say, Matthew is far surpassing the strength…

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  • With apologies to the readers who are not in the Southeast, another Matthew article.  This one is from the Capital Weather Gang and lists all of the records that Matthew has broken so far in its life or may be about to break in the next few days.    And today (Thursday the 6th) marks…

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