Climate and Ag in the news
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Jeff Masters reported on the Weather Underground blog yesterday that a new global record high temperature for October was recorded on October 27 in South Africa. The temperature of 119 °F was observed at Vredendal and is the third highest temperature ever observed in South Africa. Masters says, “The new global October heat record was made…
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The Climate Learning Network posted a newsletter this morning describing a number of opportunities for workshops and webinars on forestry and agriculture. You can view these at the CLN blog here. One of the most useful for us in the Southeast is a webinar on Resilient Pine Management on November 19 at 1 pm EST.…
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A rare occurrence of a tropical cyclone (equivalent to a hurricane in the Atlantic) making landfall on the Arabian peninsula is expected to occur this week as Chapala moves west towards Yemen and Oman. Some areas of the desert countries could receive up to 8 years’ worth of rain in 1 to 2 days. Chapala…
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The Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang noted in a post today that unusually warm weather is expected to occur across most of the eastern US for the next week, including the start to November. This is due to a strong ridge of high pressure that will remain stationary much of the week before collapsing to…
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The Southeast Climate Consortium held their fall meeting in Athens GA on October 19-20. They have just posted photos and presentations from this meeting on their web site. You can visit https://www.seclimate.org/ to see the posters and presentation slides as well as a list of participants and other meeting information.
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Earlier this week Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posted a blog article discussing the latest carbon dioxide measurement from Mauna Loa, where records have been kept since the International Geophysical Year of 1958. The October 19 measurement shows that the concentration of CO2 is now 398.08 parts per million. As Northern Hemisphere winter…
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Along the East Coast today many roads were underwater from a combination of extremely high tides, onshore flow, remains of the flooding in South Carolina, and rising sea levels. A number of roads were forced to close, including the access to Tybee Island along the Georgia coast near Savannah. This is the third time in…