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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

Climate outlooks

  • Potential flooding rains and severe weather early this week

    Pam Knox

    Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week have a potential to cause a lot of problems for agricultural producers and others, starting on Monday afternoon into evening.  A strong slow-moving weather system is building to our west and has already caused significant damage from supercell thunderstorms in Arkansas tonight.  This system will move slowly to the…

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  • Short and long-term outlooks

    Pam Knox

    Looks like a wet weekend for most of Georgia, particularly south Georgia, where isolated areas could receive up to six inches of rain.  With the wet conditions already in place, some local flooding is definitely a possibility. On the longer term, drought is not expected to make an appearance in Georgia for the next few…

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  • IPM Climate Outlook for 2014 Growing Season and Winter 2014-15

    Pam Knox

    (This information was first produced for the UGA IPM newsletter issued on April 17, 2014) Following a very wet 2013, this year has gotten off to a drier than usual start, although generally soil moisture has been very good until recently. In the last few weeks, abnormally dry conditions have started to creep into the…

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