Climate and Ag in the news
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If you are interested in the presentations from the Southeast Regional Extension Climate Academy, they have just been uploaded to the PINEMAP YouTube video channel. You can access them at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHu4PGejzrIyU2A7Mm2RIWhybDik1jnW3. The audio is of variable quality since they were just recorded from ambient sound. Thank you to Dr. Eric Taylor of Texas A&M for…
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The National Hurricane Center has started issuing advisories on the old Investigation 91 in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, now identified as a tropical depression with a closed center. This system is not expected to make landfall. Investigation 92 is still east of Florida and moving west, but so far has not developed to the…
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The evaporative stress index is a way of measuring rates of evapotranspiration from plants and the ground using satellite data. The higher the rates of water use, the more negative the evaporative stress index. The two maps below show the maps for September 2 and September 8. You can see that on September 2,…
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Keith Carson wrote an entertaining article on his blog about seasonal forecasts. You can read it here. After a satire site printed a map showing an outlook for a very cold winter in the East that went viral, meteorologists spent a lot of time shooting down the “made-up” forecast. Keith talks about this and how…
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Scientific American posted an article recently describing how golf course managers are adapting to changing climates by picking different varieties of turf grasses that are more resilient to warmer temperatures. The article points out that as far back as the 1970’s the USGA recognized that growing excellent turf grass with less water (more resistant to…
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AgWeb reported from a story in Bloomberg today that rains twice the normal amount fattened pods from North Dakota to Ohio in August. The soybean crop is expected to yield a record 18 percent higher than last year after farmers planted 11 percent more than in 2013 due to favorable markets early in the year.…
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Today most of northeast Georgia is experiencing what natives often call “the wedge,” a shallow layer of cold air that moves down into the state along the east side of the Appalachian Mountains. The official description of this phenomenon is “cold air damming” because the mountains act as a natural dam that restricts the flow…