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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released their latest El Niño monitoring overview today. It shows that a weak El Niño is continuing to be present in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, with temperatures that are slightly below the threshold for a moderate event. It is expected to continue through the summer (60…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted an interesting story today which describes how weather and climate impact the development of a uniform field of corn, which is key to getting the top yields. One of things that is needed is a string of 4 days in a row with temperatures at…
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Clint Thompson of UGA recently interviewed me, along with some other UGA specialists, on the impact that El Niño is having on Georgia agriculture so far this year. One consequence of this year’s El Niño is the heavy rains that we have seen in northern parts of the state. In…
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Dr. David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, recently tweeted six reasons why we know that the current El Niño, officially declared on February 14, is very healthy now after a slow and uncertain start. His discussion, summarized in Forbes.com by Dr. Marshall Shepherd, lists a number of indicators which show…
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If you follow this blog regularly, you already know that recently an El Niño was recently declared. This after several months when we expected it to begin, but it did not quite get its act together. You might be wondering why this is. Here is a new blog post from…
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We’ve been watching for months, and today NOAA announced that El Niño has officially returned to the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The temperature conditions in the ocean have been showing a pattern that we expect in a weak El Niño, but until recently the atmospheric pattern did not match up with…
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AgWeb posted an interesting story this week about the increase in the use of drought-tolerant hybrids of corn in recent years. The first seeds with drought tolerance were made available in 2011 and the percent of corn acreage planted with the new hybrids has grown to over 20% since then….
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