Climate and Ag in the news
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The Washington Post had an interesting opinion piece this weekend about changes in the types and number of backyard birds and how they have been affected by climate. Both the frequency of seeing different birds and the timing of when they are present have been affected. You can read it here.
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The New York Times has a list of weather apps that you might find useful over the coming months. I haven’t tried them yet, but I plan to soon. You can find the article and list here.
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The WunderBlog posted a story yesterday describing the large number of record fall temperatures for cities across the US this year. A number of them are in the Southeast, particularly in the areas most affected by drought. You can read it here.
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Here is a nice snapshot summary of how agriculture impacts climate and how farmers are working to improve agricultural management practices to lead the way towards an improved future from Environment Reports. This one should be viewable from a smartphone. You can view it at https://www.environmentreports.com/how-does-agriculture-change/.
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The rampant wildfires that have been affecting the Southeast over the last month have caused a lot of heartache. Certainly some of the blame for the wildfires can be put on the exceptional drought that is occurring over the region (which may in turn be partly linked to the weak La Niña occurring now), and…
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According to a new study, meteorologists are the least creepy people on earth. As a meteorologist myself, I’m relieved to hear that. Of course, most people only know meteorologists because of their television work, which is actually a small percentage of jobs that meteorologists do. You can read more about this in a lighthearted story…
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You’ve seen posts here and read in other places the effects of the wildfires that have caused devastation in Gatlinburg TN and in other places around the Southeast US. But did you know that a similar situation is occurring in Israel as well? Fires there were threatening Haifa, Israel’s third largest city and over 60,000…