Climate and Ag in the news
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Yesterday the South Carolina Drought Response Committee official declared nine counties covering the Edisto basin in incipient drought, the lowest of four levels. This is the first drought declaration in the state since April 2013. You can read more about this at TheState.com.
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If you are interested in reading about agriculture and climate in the Pacific Northwest, you might like to visit the website for that region. You can find it at https://agclimate.net/. Lots of interesting stories on the impact of climate on agriculture in that productive part of the country!
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If you’ve been paying attention to the current tropical season, you know that the west coast has been plagued by heavy rains from the remnants of tropical storms. First Hurricane Norbert, and now Hurricane Odile have sent plumes of moisture into the desert Southwest, leading to unprecedented flooding and the possibility of many additional rainfall…
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The Climate News Network produced an article this week describing how the recent unprecedented drought in Brazil has highlighted the importance of the Amazon rainforest in the regional water budget. The rainforest is being chopped down in many areas, in many cases to grow soybeans and other agricultural crops as well as for lumber. Ironically,…
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Climate.gov has a blog discussing topics related to El Nino, an oscillation which affects temperature and precipitation in parts of the Southeast, particularly in winter months when El Nino is usually strongest. One of the research questions that comes up in studies of changing climate is whether El Nino will occur more frequently in the…
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Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the historic flooding that affected areas around Atlanta on September 15-22, 2009. You may remember the photos of Six Flag’s roller coaster in a pool of water. The single highest 24-hour value was taken at the Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority. Are you prepared for a flood like…
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Many of the meteorologists and climatologists I know started out with a burning interest in weather, either because of a close encounter with a tornado or other storm event or because the weather and its many aspects were fascinating to them from an early age. The Gwinnett Daily Post had an article yesterday (click here…
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