Climate and Ag in the news
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As a former State Climatologist of Wisconsin and assistant SC of Georgia, I am very proud of all our state climatologists around the country and the work that they do to monitor historical climate and educate their citizens about weather and climate variability at all time scales. NOAA has just produced an excellent video which…
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Vox.com had an interesting article this week which discussed the history of the Fahrenheit and Centigrade temperature scales and why the US is the only major country that still uses the Fahrenheit scale. You might enjoy reading about the controversy here. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography professor, posted a blog article this morning discussing the topic and…
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There is a new “experimental” product available from the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) of NOAA which provides analog values of precipitation amounts for time periods from the present to ten days out. The product is available at https://esrl.noaa.gov/psd/forecasts/reforecast2/analogs/index.html. These maps use a new set of analog comparisons to predict rainfall across the US. The maps…
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With all the news stories about Boston’s incredible snowfall and the frigid conditions in the Northeast, you’d think that the US is having a much colder than normal winter. But USA Today points out that while the Northeast is having one of its snowiest and chilliest winters on record, out west they are basking under…
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One of the frequent claims of climate change skeptics is that climate scientists are making up or falsifying data to make it appear that the Earth is warming. You may have heard this from some of your own clients who based their beliefs on stories promoted in some media outlets. However, this “zombie theory” has…
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The latest issue of the Southeast Climate Consortium newsletter is now available here. The Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC) is a group of scientists from a number of universities around the Southeast who study aspects of climate, agriculture and water around the region. This month the newsletter highlights the Tri-State Row Crop group workshop held earlier…
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A new NASA study this week shows the potential impacts of the warming climate on the occurrence of “megadroughts”, which are multi-year extreme droughts that have historically affected areas like California and the central part of the US. (Tree ring analysis has shown that the Southeast has also experienced megadroughts in the last 500 years.)…