Climate and Ag in the news
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Have you enjoyed the view of the full moon that has occurred over the last two nights? Even with all of the smoke in the Southeast, the drought has kept skies reasonably clear and most folks have gotten a glimpse of how big it is, because it is on the nearest point of its orbit…
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AgWeb released a video story today about the impacts of flooding rain in Louisiana and North Carolina on this year’s sweet potato crops. In some areas of Louisiana, for example, some farmers lost 50 to 70 percent of their crop. In the north, losses ranged from 15 percent to 35 percent. You can read more and…
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Several of my Facebook friends posted this MODIS satellite image of the smoke in northern Georgia today. Spectacular and troubling! All of the smoke from several fires is blending to create significant haze across the area. The smoke has caused problems with visibility on highways and respiratory issues for people with asthma and other lung…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is offering a three-part series on the outlook for the upcoming winter. This week’s post is on forecasts based on folklore like woolly worm caterpillars and the two Farmers’ Almanacs. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=219&h=5666e5c1.
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In addition to terrible effects on livestock, crops and farmers, floods can affect many other things as well. I was interested to read this story about how a famous painting in Florence, Italy, has been restored and redisplayed at its museum 50 years after it was damaged by a strong flood. You can read about…
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The smoke has cleared, at least temporarily, from Athens this morning and it smells less smoky, which means the plume is now going elsewhere. Here are a couple of pictures of the Rough Ridge fire in northern GA which the NWS Peachtree City posted yesterday. You can read more about efforts to fight these fires…
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A couple of Facebook posts this morning remind me that it is time to think about cold weather returning to our region. NWS Peachtree City has posted freeze warnings for Saturday night into Sunday morning for the northeast Georgia mountains. At least one of the CoCoRaHS observers has already reported temperatures down to 28 F…