Climate and Ag in the news
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I ran across an interesting article in National Geographic today discussing the changes that farmers in California and the West are starting to make in response to the continuing drought conditions there and the prospect for less water in the future as groundwater becomes more regulated and harder to access as water levels drop. Some…
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In a post earlier this week I talked about the source of all the cold air that has been affecting the US this month. The source region for the frigid air was northern Russia and Siberia. This week NASA posted their October 2014 climate summary, which showed that the earth as a whole was the…
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The Washington Post printed an article this week that discussed the costs of protecting homes or buying out homeowners for coastal properties that flood repeatedly at high tides. Based on estimates from five cities along the East Coast in Virginia, the costs to compensate homeowners for homes with “repetitive losses” that are insured under the…
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Growing Georgia published an article by Allison Floyd today discussing the opportunities for Southern vegetable farmers due to the continuing drought in California. You can read the article here. Because of the severe water restrictions in California, growers in Georgia are being asked to expand into other varieties of vegetables, including green leafy vegetables which…
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With all the stories about the record-breaking cold air, the unbelievably heavy snow in Buffalo, and other frigid weather conditions, it is not surprising that I have been asked where all this cold air is coming from, particularly so early in the winter season. To answer this, you need to look at where the air…
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While parts of Buffalo have received over 70 inches of snow in this cold outbreak, other areas of the upper Midwest are also feeling the effects of early snow cover. AgWeb posted an article this week discussing the impacts of the snow on corn harvest in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and even Michigan. You can read…
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My meteorologist and climatologist friends have been posting one story after another about the extreme cold weather we have experienced in the past day. Today many areas set records for low maximum temperature, and some record lows were set. Tomorrow morning, many more record lows are expected to be broken. The Southeast Regional Climate Center…