Drought
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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 La Niña occurring now), and…
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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 before the end of the…
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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 largest city and over 60,000…
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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 that “We, in Alabama and…
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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 note about this yesterday in…
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High winds with gusts to 70 mph ahead of the cold front that is moving into the Southeast caused forest fires in North Carolina and Tennessee to flare up, resulting in a panicked evacuation of Gatlinburg TN late in the evening on the 28th. You can see pictures and video of the smoke and fire…
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Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Drought Monitor is out a day early. It shows expansion of all levels of drought across the Southeast and the introduction of abnormally dry conditions along the Georgia coast and in northern Florida, where Matthew, Julia and Hermine dropped rain earlier this year. Considering that most of those areas…
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