Climate science
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If you grow specialty crops in the Southeast, you may be interested in this pair of studies which look at the vulnerability of specialty crops in California and in the Midwestern US to changes in climate that are expected to occur over the next fifty years, including changes in the temperatures and growing seasons as…
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The USDA Southwest Regional Climate Hub’s recent newsletter noted an online article that may be of use to some of you in looking ahead to planning for the future. This is especially important if you are considering purchasing land or switching to new crops which may respond differently to climate than what you are growing…
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Volcanologists and climatologists are watching the impending eruption of Mount Agung in Bali closely to see how soon it might erupt and how strong the eruption might be. Agung last erupted in 1963 and caused several years of below-normal weather following the strong eruption. The most recent large tropical volcanic explosion was Mount Pinatubo in the…
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The USDA’s Southwest Regional Climate Hub has a new online curriculum on agriculture and climate change available for K-12 educators and students. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet, but even though it was written for the Southwest, I’m sure it contains information that would be valuable to the Southeast as well.…
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While fall started on September 1 for meteorologists and climatologists, today is the first day of astronomical fall. Most of the Southeast will be feeling summer-like temperatures for a few more days before cooler air moves into the region in about a week. You can read more about why climatologists and astronomers have different definitions…
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Many older weather records exist, but because they are stored in ship logs, on paper, or in museum log books, we can’t use them to do modern scientific studies with. If we had access to the data, it would give us a clearer look at long-term weather patterns that we can’t do now. Because of…
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The National Weather Service recently provided two online presentations on fall weather safety and space weather. Fall weather includes hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, floods and wind, all of which are occurring somewhere in the US right now, and space weather describes the weather of the upper atmosphere, auroras, and related topics. This is also very timely…
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