Climate and Ag in the news
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Following up on my posting from yesterday on lightning, here’s an interesting story from Yahoo Finance on what happens after you get hit by lightning. After reading it, I think you’ll agree that it is MUCH BETTER not to get hit in the first place. Note: some of the descriptions and photos in the story…
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Huffington Post published an article online this week describing the ways that weather can affect your health You can find it here. How does the weather affect the way you feel? Do you notice changes in your pets’ or livestock’s behaviors? I’ve got friends who definitely feel the effects of weather changes on their arthritis…
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Last week in many news feeds there was a fascinating story about how the North Pole is moving due to changes in the distribution of weight around the world from melting ice. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab scientists showed that the axis of rotation around which the Earth spins is moving towards the east (I do…
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According to a recent article in USA Today, the hotspot for lightning in the United States is located in Orangetree, Florida, a few miles southeast of Fort Myers on the southwest coast of the peninsula. This is based on a new satellite study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Globally, the most…
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NOAA reported this week that the latest temperature statistics on global average temperature for 2016 so far put this year far above measurements from previous years. In their global summary they also noted that March was the 11th consecutive month with a record high temperature for the Earth, reaching a value of 2.2 degrees F…
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“Restorative grazing” is the idea that by appropriate use of grazing on dry grasslands, you can build up organic matter and improve the land to increase the health of the plants there, even during droughts. In this article from the Food and Environment Reporting Network, a 7-year study of a desertified landscape in Zimbabwe looked…
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Matt Daniel of WMAZ in Macon GA listed several interesting weather records that were set this week. You may not have heard any of them. 1) Seattle had its warmest April day ever recorded after hitting 89°F yesterday. (April 18, 2016) It shattered the record high of 70°F back in 2010. 2) Houston, TX (IAH) recorded…