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UPDATE: Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soehiuBGjRM. Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar on Tuesday, August 11 at 10 AM EDT! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and…
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UGA’s Small Business Development Center is offering a series of free webinars on how to prepare your business for impacts from tropical storms and hurricanes on August 24-27. You can look at the flyer below or go to https://www.georgiasbdc.org/emergency-preparedness-and-business-continuity-webinar-series/ for more information or to register for the webinars. Planning is important and can make the…
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In the next few weeks, several online courses will be offered that could be of interest to extension agents, scientists, and students of climate and agriculture. In Fall 2020, the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of Oklahoma will offer two short courses that will provide an integrative understanding of the components…
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No matter where you are, I hope you are safe and healthy and all set to enjoy a wonderful holiday. Happy 4th!
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Our planet Earth will be farthest from the sun in its annual orbit on Saturday, July 4 at 7:35 am EDT. This is called aphelion and it comes in the middle of Northern Hemisphere summer and Southern Hemisphere winter. The distance of the earth from the sun has very little to do with our temperatures…
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Today is Asteroid Day in remembrance of the impact of an asteroid (some thing a comet instead) in a remote area of Russia called Tunguska on this date in 1908. The blast of the explosion when it hit knocked down an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in eastern Siberia.…
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Is the sun getting you up earlier and earlier? That is because we are near the summer solstice, the period of time when the sun is the farthest north in the Northern Hemisphere sky, rises the earliest and sets the latest. It also marks the start of astronomical summer. June 20 is this year’s summer…