Climate and Ag in the news
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In honor of Halloween today, I am posting a link to a blog which describes the impacts of various types of climate conditions on pumpkin production. You can find it here from Earth Gauge. If conditions are cool and wet, mildew can reduce the yields or rot the pumpkins on the ground. If conditions are…
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The USDA issued this statement yesterday about impacts of the recent drought on Early County in GA and surrounding counties, which also receive drought benefits from this declaration: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated Early County in Georgia as a primary natural disaster area due to damages and losses caused by a recent…
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Deke Arndt at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has a recent blog post at Climate.gov which provides some perspective on temperatures around the globe in 2014 to date and what it means for the yearly temperature record. The post points out that the globe has already set several temperature records this year and that…
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One of the questions I am sometimes asked about is the effects of changes in sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic on weather in other parts of the world. As you may know, Arctic sea ice has generally been decreasing since the 1970’s, while Antarctic sea ice is increasing, although not at the same…
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Many of us in the Southeast have been enjoying the unusually warm weather we’ve had for the past few days. In fact, Macon tied their record high of 88 F today (old record was in 1919) and Savannah and Augusta broke their records with 90 F observed today at both locations. This marks the latest date on…
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NBC News reported that a new study to be published shortly in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the drought which covered much of the US in 1934 was the worst in 1000 years, based on tree ring records from across the country from 1000 to 2005 as well as modern climate observations. The atmospheric pattern…
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A couple of recent publications have noted that the ranges of fish and ragweed are expanding to the north under the influence of warming temperatures on land and in the ocean. CBC News reported on a recent study that tracked the ranges of 802 commercially exploited fish species and noted that ” the fish are…
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