The web site Adventures in Mapping shows a new drought map for the Southeast which captures the complexity of the current (fortunately waning) drought in our region using colored dots to represent drought intensity and frequency. You can read more about it and find a link to explain how they…
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The WunderBlog posted a story yesterday describing the large number of record fall temperatures for cities across the US this year. A number of them are in the Southeast, particularly in the areas most affected by drought. You can read it here.
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The rampant wildfires that have been affecting the Southeast over the last month have caused a lot of heartache. Certainly some of the blame for the wildfires can be put on the exceptional drought that is occurring over the region (which may in turn be partly linked to the weak…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows only very slight changes in drought status across the Southeast from last week, mostly in Alabama, Georgia and western Florida. The changes are most likely due to rain which finally fell after weeks of dry weather in the last few days, just…
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You’ve seen posts here and read in other places the effects of the wildfires that have caused devastation in Gatlinburg TN and in other places around the Southeast US. But did you know that a similar situation is occurring in Israel as well? Fires there were threatening Haifa, Israel’s third…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week by Eddie McGriff of Alabama Extension discussing how good the cotton yields for both irrigated and dryland fields in Alabama this year. This in spite of the drought that has deepened over the area over the last few months. Eddie noted…
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I woke up to the sound of rain on the roof and I smiled because there is no more welcome sound after a long dry spell. But will the rain be helpful for farmers trying to find grazing for their cattle? Dr. Dennis Hancock, UGA pasture specialist, put out a…
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