Climate and Ag in the news
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The US Department of Commerce released a blog entry this week which discussed the value of government weather and climate services to the general public. A recent study showed that the overwhelming majority of Americans use weather forecasts and check them an average of 3.8 times per day. That is 301 billion forecasts consumed per…
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The QUEST multimedia reporting group has a new audio and text story on how recent droughts in Texas and Oklahoma have changed the shape of the cattle industry. During their last drought, many ranchers sold off significant parts of their herds. Much of the beef production moved farther north to places like Nebraska where feed…
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The six to ten day outlook for temperatures in the US (from www.cpc.noaa.gov) shows a large area of much below normal temperatures in the Northern Plains, leading to some concerns about an early frost along the US-Canada border. If it happened, it would have the potential to drive corn prices up significantly. AgWeb published two…
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Bryan Norcross of The Weather Channel and Hurricane Andrew fame posted this excellent column on his Facebook page this morning. It was also published in Crain’s NewsPro magazine. An important discussion on hurricane cycles and the vulnerability of the coasts to tropical storms, related to some of the discussions we had at SRECA this…
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AgWeb recently published a story from NDSU Extension beef specialist Kris Ringwall on a couple of sources of information cattle producers can use to monitor drought and moisture conditions across the country. Kris points out that managing cattle is always a matter of flexibility as wet and dry spells come and go, but using graphics…
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Atlantic magazine had an interesting entry in their CityLab blog on temperature extremes in the US this week. The article pointed out that in most year, extremes of cold or warm dominate the country as a whole. However, this year there have been a nearly equal number of record hot and cold temperatures due…
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Weather Underground published a news story on September 1 showing that August 2014 had the lowest number of tornadoes for any August since 1963. This year only 27 tornadoes were confirmed across the US compared to an average of 81. In 1963 only 26 tornadoes were reported. However, small and weak tornadoes were reported much…
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