Climate and Ag in the news
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As of 5 pm today, the National Hurricane Center announced the formation of Tropical Storm Grace, out in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It will be going through a large area of dry conditions and strong wind shear so is not expected to deepen much.
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I ran across this article today on the impacts of warming climate on the wine-making industry in Quebec, Canada. It starts with one of the best lines I have ever read in a climate change article. “Crops are drying out, cattle are too hot to have sex, and the gelato industry is slowly melting away.…
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David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, recently posted an update on El Nino on the SIFT blog. You can read it at https://www.siftag.org/super-el-nino-poised-to-disrupt-weather-patterns/. Climate Central also published a video comparison of the 1997 and 2015 El Nino sea surface temperatures here.
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Now that it is September, people are starting to think about fall. I frequently get asked when the peak color is going to occur. Of course, conditions vary from year to year depending on the climate conditions each year, but there are a few sites that have really useful information to address this question. The…
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A new study published in Nature magazine shows that dry climates across the world have increased. They note that “About 5.7% of the global total land area has shifted toward warmer and drier climate types from 1950–2010, and significant changes include expansion of arid and high-latitude continental climate zones, shrinkage in polar and midlatitude continental…
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which was the most intense category 5 storm to ever hit the US coast. It hit in the Florida Keys and killed over 500 people with winds that reached up to 185 mph. It made a second landfall later near Cedar Key as…
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What is left of Tropical Storm Erika is now drifting northeast into the south-central and southeastern areas of Georgia. The radar this morning shows some locally heavy rain in the center of the weak circulation northeast of Valdosta. There is also a secondary band of almost stationary rain northwest of the main blog of rain…