Climate and Ag in the news
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Climate Central has produced an easy to use map which provides color-coded information about trends in temperature across the country. You can find it here. It’s interesting to see how the trends change by region as well as season. In the Southeast, the highest warming trends have been occurring in winter and summer, with less…
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The History Channel has an excellent retrospective on the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, which occurred on June 6, 1944. The weather forecast for that event was crucial in making it a success. You might enjoy reading about it and watching some video at https://www.history.com/news/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day. USA Today also had a feature about this in 2014 which…
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One of my favorite site, https://earth.nullschool.net, is showing the broad circulation around Tropical Storm Colin. You can see that there is a tremendous amount of moisture being pulled into the Southeast ahead of the storm. It is no wonder that rainfall amounts of up to several inches of rain are predicted to occur over the next…
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Spring is officially over (climatologically speaking) and now we look forward to summer. I often get asked whether a hot spring means a hot summer, or some other permutation of that question. Often, there is no correlation between seasons. However, in the latest “Beyond the Data” blog entry from Climate.gov, Deke Arndt discusses the impact of a…
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Growing Georgia reported that the Georgia Farm Bureau is expecting a bumper crop of peaches this year. Even though December was very warm, cold temperatures in January and late February brought enough chill hours to get the peach trees ready to bloom, and a feared late frost did not materialize, leading to good production for…
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As the El Niño continues to weaken, colder than normal water is starting to emerge in the eastern Pacific Ocean where unusually warm water previously resided. This is a sign that the El Niño will soon be gone, although the process for declaring it ended usually takes several months to make sure that the event…
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Early indications in long-term weather forecast models indicate that there is a pretty good chance of a tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico early next week and moving across the Florida panhandle by Tuesday. If this system does develop and reach tropical storm strength, it would be called Colin. Since it is almost…