Climate and Ag in the news
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In the conference I’m attending today, one of the speakers presented PDSI data derived from tree rings going back to about 400 AD. It is presented as a series of grid points across North America. If you are interested in a longer-term perspective on climate that goes back farther than the instrumental records, you might…
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After yesterday’s announcement that the Japan Meteorological Agency had determined that according to their data that October was the warmest on record, it should come as no surprise that NOAA has also measured the highest temperature since their records started in 1880 for both October and for the year to date, breaking the previous records…
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The “States at Risk” website was put together to look at how well each state is prepared to deal with impacts of changing climate. The site provides ratings for each state on how prepared they are to deal with extreme heat, coastal and inland flooding, drought and wildfires and combines them into one overall grade. …
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Discover magazine published a story yesterday discussing the first of several news releases describing the ramp-up in global temperature that was observed in October. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, this past October was the warmest in a record stretching back 1891, with a global average temperature for the month coming in at 0.85°C above the…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center noted on Facebook today that many weather observing stations in the Southeast have already reached the #1 rank for the wettest fall on record, with two weeks still to go (and rain on the way). You can produce your own map at https://www.sercc.com/perspectivesmap?date=2015-11-16&var=precip&period=STD&map_display=rank. Note that there are also a few stations…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted an article to their blog today from Bradley McLamb, Meteorologist at the NC Division of Air Quality, and Corey Davis listing the possibilities for cold outbreaks this winter. Even though El Niño is currently expected to impact the Southeast’s weather for the next few months, not every El Niño…
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The Packer reported this week that South American blueberries should be in short supply for the next few months due to a cold October, which has slowed production. Hail also caused fruit damage in Argentina. You can read more about this at https://www.thepacker.com/news/south-american-blueberry-season-starts-slowly.