Climate and Ag in the news
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has a new product available on their main web page at https://www.cpc.noaa.gov/. For the first time, they are publishing experimental 3-4 week climate outlooks that are similar to the 6-10 day and 8-14 day forecasts. You can see the latest forecasts for 3-4 weeks below. They show a high likelihood of above…
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Our sister blog at “Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate” has a new post this week on the role that farmers play in the climate change story. You can read it at https://animalagclimatechange.org/victim-contributor-solver/.
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In this blog I talk a lot about El Niño because it has the most significant impact of any climate cycle on the climate of the Southeast. You might be interested in the history of how El Niño was discovered and why it has the name it has. I read a great article by Julia Busiek in…
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The Southeast Farm Press reported earlier this week about the devastating impacts of the flash drought that is affecting South Carolina as well as parts of North Carolina and Georgia. Ironically, wet conditions last spring delayed planting of many crops and probably reduced the number of acres of corn planted. Then hot and dry conditions…
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Yesterday I published a story stating that the Antarctic ice extent was record-setting for August. As I looked back at the post this morning, I realized that I was quoting a story that was two years old, from 2013. Today’s NOAA climate summary shows that the Antarctic ice extent this year is just below the…
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NOAA published their latest climate summary this morning. In it they show that this August was the warmest since record began in 1895 for the globe as a whole. The eastern US was one of the few areas across the Earth that was not unusually warm. Temperature patterns for the January through August period were…
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The latest Drought Monitor this morning shows decreasing drought in Georgia and Florida but increases in drought and abnormally dry conditions in Alabama and North and South Carolina. You can visit the Drought Monitor at https://www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu/. Predictions for rainfall are below average for the next few weeks so this is likely to expand over time,…