Drought
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Warm conditions in Georgia from April continued into May, but a pattern shift in the atmosphere caused a dry spell to dominate most of the state until late in May, when rain returned to the area. This shift caused both positive and negative impacts on agriculture in the state. Temperatures across the state were above…
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Yahoo News had a couple of stories yesterday highlighting more problems with the continuing drought on the West Coast and impacts on agriculture. One story noted that California’s snowpack is already gone for the year, which means no more water coming down the rivers for irrigation until the next rainy season begins. Governor Brown has…
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The Washington Post wrote earlier this week about the extremes in weather that have occurred around the globe in May. Scientists attribute the extremes at least in part to an unusually stationary jet stream which has locked in place, bringing torrential rain to Texas and Oklahoma and leaving other areas dry, including much of the…
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The very wet April followed by the very dry May have caused a variety of agricultural impacts in the Southeast. Here is a sampling of what I have seen in news stories. The Southeast Farm Press noted that the dry conditions in early May came at a bad time for pre-applied herbicides to activate. Weeds…
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The latest National Drought Monitor was issued this morning and shows that abnormally dry conditions expanded from 20 to 34 percent of the region, mostly in the western Carolinas and Virginia. Dry conditions decreased in Alabama, but moderate drought reappeared in south-central Georgia, which has missed most of the rain this past month. Updated drought…
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Four years of drought in California and the prospect of even longer droughts in the future has Californians seeking for insight into how to deal with these longer droughts. Australia has survived their “Big Dry”, which lasted from the 1990s through 2012, and are a natural source of information on how to cope with long-term…
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Tengri News reported on the mass death of over 90,000 rare Saiga antelope in Kazakhstan. In the past ten days, the antelope have died at an alarming rate, leading to the death of almost 40 percent of the known population of these migratory antelope. Scientists are still trying to determine the cause of so many…