Climate science
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The latest video from Georgia Climate Stories features an interview with a long-time blueberry producer in southern Georgia and the changes he has seen in climate over time. He discusses the problems they have had with blueberries and frost for the last three seasons and how that is impacting their production. You can view the…
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I don’t listen to many podcasts, but I made an exception for this one. One of my favorite climatologists, Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information, talks to UGA Professor Dr. Marshall Shepherd of the Weather Channel‘s Weather Geeks about the differences between weather and climate, and climate change myths, and takes us…
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Did you know that the Southeast has two severe weather seasons each year? In addition to the spring severe weather season, we have a second season in late fall when the polar front moves towards the equator as the sun angle decreases. This leads to more dynamic systems that can bring strong winds, hail and…
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While temperature and related growing degree days help control how fast corn and other crops develop, it’s less well known that solar radiation also has an effect. If it’s warm but cloudy, the corn growth will be slower than if skies are sunny. This is one reason that we are planning to put a solar…
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It’s getting to be that time of year again. We are approaching the average date of first frost for the Athens and Atlanta areas. Parts of northern GA have already experienced a bit of frost earlier this fall, and colder weather may bring freezing air into more of the state within the next week or…
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Occasionally I get asked if and how climate change is affecting extreme weather in the Southeast. This has come up more frequently in the past few years with all of the hurricanes which have impacted agriculture in the past few years, including Matthew, Florence, Irma, and Michael. Here is a lengthy but useful description of…
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Every farmer and extension agent that I talk to agrees that recent changes to USDA have caused a lot of concern about the agency’s ability to serve the agricultural community. Questions have arisen about the loss of expertise in the move of some parts of the agency out of Washington and the removal of certain…
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