Climate and Ag in the news
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If you have ever considered getting your own home weather station, Popular Mechanics has provided a review of the eight best home weather stations in a recent article at https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/lawn-garden/a35098351/best-home-weather-stations/. This might be helpful if you are trying to wade through a list of potential set-ups and don’t know where to start. You can also…
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I hear some stories about how changes in the weather can affect people’s physical health, with creaky knees or swollen sinuses occurring with some types of weather. Here is a recent story from EuroNews about how weather may affect young people’s mental health. Researchers led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) found that…
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Meteorologists like to describe weather in terms of how hot, dry, wet, or cold things have been. A newer measure of the impacts of winter weather on humans is the Winter Misery Index, known more completely as the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI). It is mapped by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center and posted on their…
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Some of you are still digging out from the snowstorm that fell across a large swath of the South from Louisiana and Texas all the way to eastern North Carolina and Virginia. Here in Athens we were on the northern edge of the storm with just 1/2 inch, but many people in southern GA and…
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In the week I have received several questions about why this winter, which was predicted to be warmer and drier than usual, has been so cold. Here is a response I wrote to Bob Kemerait, UGA, about this winter’s crazy weather and the lack of warm weather (so far). You might find it helpful too.…
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View Post Impacts from the variable rainfall this year, coupled with the devastating winds and rain from Hurricane Helene in late September, caused low morale for growers according to UGA pecan specialist Lenny Wells as quoted in Specialty Crop Grower. Poor yields and low prices both contributed to the discouragement of the growers. You can…
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Even though you can’t see any precipitation on radar tonight across the Southeast, the computer models and forecasters are sure it is coming and that it is going to be messy. The models all agree that a Gulf low will be forming in the next day and wrapping cold air and wet, wintry weather around…
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