Climate and Ag in the news
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Have you ever wondered how the local topography affects your local climate conditions? Jake Crouch of NOAA’s Climate.gov has a nice blog post which describes how mountains and valleys affect climate. Even though the mountains in the Southeast are not as tall as those in the West, they do provide quite a bit of climate…
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Even though we are on the downside, the tropical season in the Atlantic is not quite over yet. Investigation 94 is gradually developing and could turn into a tropical depression or even a tropical storm in a day or two. If it did, it would be named Kate. Late Sunday Night: This storm was officially…
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Here in Athens GA we are our 8th day in a row of rain. It is raining as I write this. The last time we had a November with this many consecutive days of rain it was 1930. It is supposed to rain tomorrow here too, with 2-4 inches possible. The record for a run…
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Lawton Stewart of UGA reported that due to the wet conditions we have seen recently, fescue toxicosis has become a problem in parts of Georgia, particular in cows that are calving. Here is his statement, sent out via email to Georgia Extension agents. It may also be an issue in the Carolinas and Alabama where…
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NOAA’s latest set of maps summarizing the climate of the US shows that for October, the contiguous 48 states were the fourth warmest since records began in 1895. For the January through October period, the nation was the 6th warmest on record. You can see the breakdown by climate division in the maps below. I’ve…
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Many media stories have focused on either climate change or El Niño as an explanation for why the North Pacific Ocean is so warm this year. Yesterday this blog discussed one of the consequences of the warm water–the record-setting tropical season in the Pacific Ocean this year, which has far surpassed previous seasons in the…
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Did you know that the Southeast experiences a second peak in severe weather in late fall? While the biggest newsmaker is the spring severe weather season, there are a significant number of tornadoes that occur around November, particularly in the southern parts of the country. Weather Underground produced a story on November tornadoes today, including…