Climate and Ag in the news
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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…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week by Eddie McGriff of Alabama Extension discussing how good the cotton yields for both irrigated and dryland fields in Alabama this year. This in spite of the drought that has deepened over the area over the last few months. Eddie noted that “We, in Alabama and…
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You might not think about it right away, but several of the planets in the solar system have atmospheres that are in some ways similar to what we have on Earth. After all, gases follow the same basic physical rules no matter what planet they are on. EOS.org posted an interesting story earlier this month…
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High winds with gusts to 70 mph ahead of the cold front that is moving into the Southeast caused forest fires in North Carolina and Tennessee to flare up, resulting in a panicked evacuation of Gatlinburg TN late in the evening on the 28th. You can see pictures and video of the smoke and fire…
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The cloudy weather today in Athens is exciting after days of blue skies because it is a hint of things to come. We are expecting rain for the first time in what seems like months (in some places, it literally IS months) over the next few days, and people are getting pumped up. I am…