Climate and Ag in the news
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina published a report on the recent snow and severe weather that hit North Carolina in the last couple of weeks. You can access it on their blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=177&h=5666e5c1.
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BBC News published a news story this weekend discussing the likely changes we are likely to see in US agriculture if warming trends continue. The story was based on a recently published study of how extreme events like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s would affect agriculture if it happened in a warmer climate in…
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When scientists talk about a climate that is getting warmer, they often talk about 2 degrees of change as being enough to cause irreversible changes in the earth’s climate system. But what makes “2 degrees” important? It’s true that a 2 degree change in daily temperature is barely noticeable in the day to day variability…
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I read an interesting article today about the Great Florida Cattle Drive, a celebration of Florida’s statehood. I did not realize that this great roundup was occurring, but was intrigued at the idea of helping people to relive the live of a southern cattle driver from the 1800’s. You might enjoy reading this article and…
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While for many farmers, drought causes severe economic hardship, a new study of California farmers shows that some of them are doing very well economically in spite of over four years of drought, according to an article in AgWeb yesterday. Some of the profits come from the surging value of crops like almonds, while others…
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Here is an image from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center that shows a US map of the tornadoes that were observed across the United States in 2015. There are also state-by-state statistics showing which states received more tornadoes than average and which received less. Note that all of the Southeast experienced below-normal numbers of tornadoes last…
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NOAA has published a new update and outlook for the current El Niño and what is likely to happen next summer. You can view it here.