Climate and Ag in the news
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Rome Ethredge posted a blog entry this morning in Seminole Crop E News describing the peanut situation in South Carolina based on observations by two Extension specialists there. The impacts vary depending on when the peanuts were dug or how mature they are now. You can read the article at https://seminolecropnews.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/peanut-situation-in-south-carolina/.
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Another interesting story I read today in Yahoo Finance discussed the problems that California brewers are having in producing their beer while holding to the stringent drought water restrictions that are in effect. The 25% reduction in water use is making it difficult for brewers there to keep their brewing and bottling lines open. Some…
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Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground had an interesting blog entry about hurricanes that reach northern locations. He pointed out that the storm that used to be Hurricane Oho in the Central Pacific was now headed for the Alaskan Panhandle, where it was expected to cause strong wind gusts and heavy surf along the Aleutian…
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If you like to eat pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, or other goodies that require canned pumpkin, you might want to stock up early this year. Unusually wet conditions have caused a significant decline in the production of pumpkins in Illinois, which produces 90% of the canned pumpkin in the US. Prices are already starting to…
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I want to recognize Mr. Willis Swint of Jonesboro GA this week for receiving the Thomas Jefferson Award from NOAA for his 56 years of service as a National Weather Service cooperative observer. In all of those years, Mr. Swint has never missed an observation. That is 20,440 consecutive days of measuring temperature and precipitation! …
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Reports on impacts of recent rains continue to come in, both from the flood event on October 1-5 in South Carolina and surrounding areas, and in other parts of the Southeast. The Packer provided a story describing the significant impacts of the heavy rains on vegetable production in South and North Carolina and Virginia. In…
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NOAA released their summary for the climate of September 2015 today. The analysis shows that this September was the second warmest since records began in 1895, following September 1998, which was the warmest September on record. Most of the country was warmer than normal, but the Southeast was very close to the long-term average and…