Climate and Ag in the news
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The Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate blog has a new post about farm decision-making and economic realities in dealing with changes in climate. You can read it at https://animalagclimatechange.org/driver-of-change/.
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The summer solstice arrives on Monday at 6:34 EDT. You can read about what it is on the WunderBlog at https://www.wunderground.com/news/summer-solstice-first-day-summer-20140619#prclt-JnRYWA1s. You might also be interested to read about the difference in the length of day from north to south at EarthSky here. Happy astronomical summer!
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Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA published a new column in Forbes.com this week about mammatus clouds, the beautiful and sometimes scary clouds that form on the undersides of severe thunderstorms (and occasionally in other places as well). You can read his blog post here. The Cloud Appreciation Society also has some great pictures of mammatus…
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While it seems to be pretty intuitive that parking in the shade helps keep your car cool, there has been surprisingly little data collected to show how much cooler it is. The State Climatologist of Arizona, Nancy Selover, has contributed to a recent article describing their work to measure car temperatures in sun and shade…
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Today marks the 18th birthday of the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, more frequently known as CoCoRaHS. Nolan Doesken, the founder of the network, has some interesting information on how the network got started in his most recent newsletter, which you can read here. I have been a CoCoRaHS observer in Clarke County,…
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Even though it has been hot and mostly dry in the Southeast, in France and Spain soggy weather has caused problems for farmers as well as contributing to the floods that have plagued Paris in recent weeks. AgWeb posted an article this week saying that wheat harvesting is 8-10 days behind normal due to the…
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According to the Weather Channel, ongoing drought conditions have contributed to the 29 million tree deaths in California, a number that is still on the rise. In addition to millions of oak trees in the state being killed off by sudden oak death disease, bark beetles have also played a large role in taking out…