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As climate changes, agricultural producers are looking to move into new areas with beneficial climates as well as access to irrigation water. Some changes are being seen in the US as corn is now grown in areas that used to be too dry, and crops like olives are now being…
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Bloomberg Businessweek has an excellent long-form article this week on the multiple stresses that are facing the water supply managers for Miami and the South Florida region. Some of these come from changes in climate, as rising sea level pushes salty sea water into the aquifers and heavier rains cause…
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Today is the last day of meteorological summer. Some folks have asked me whether there is any relationship between summer conditions and fall ones. In the Southeast, the answer is “not much”. There is a positive correlation, so that warmer than average summers do trend towards warmer than average falls,…
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This time of year there is no shortage of stories about agriculture and climate in the media. Many of them are geared to one place, and of course I tend to look at the ones in the US first. But there are a lot coming from other countries as well. …
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The North Central Region Water Network has a recording of a recent webinar on wind energy and its impact on rural communities available on YouTube. While this webinar is focused on Michigan, it has good lessons for rural communities in other parts of the country as well. The Southeast is…
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A new research study published recently in Geophysical Research Letters indicates that in a warmer climate the swings back and forth between El Niño and La Niña may amplify, making year to year variability between the different phases more extreme. It may also make differences from one place to another…
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Thirteen years ago today, Hurricane Katrina came onshore in eastern Louisiana. While the winds were down to 75-80 mph, the storm surge was massive, in some places higher than 28 feet, and wiped out blocks along the coastline stretching from the Florida Panhandle well across most of Louisiana. Two days…
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