Tools for climate and agriculture
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If you live along the Gulf Coast, this new free tool may help you identify the potential risks your home may be in danger of experiencing. When you put in your address, then it will use census tract data to determine the relative danger from different risks in the area and what kinds of insurance…
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Here is a very helpful online tool that I used today for creating custom maps of NCEI normals for anywhere in the United States that you might like to try. It was created by the Northeast Regional Climate Center and is located at https://ncei-normals-mapper.rcc-acis.org/. It is quite easy to use. It allows you to pick…
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What do you do to prepare for hurricane season? Do you take an inventory of your belongings? Purchase flood insurance? Plan where to evacuate in case the storm comes right over your location? If you are like many Floridians, according to a recent AAA poll, you do none of the above. In fact, you probably…
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It’s raining outside my window right now, and I’m not really worried about drought in the near future, but the next drought is always around the corner and friends are currently experiencing one. Because of that, I want you to know about the new state pages on Drought.gov. They provided updated state-by-state information and resources…
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The Climate Toolbox website is a collection of web tools for visualizing past and projected climate and hydrology of the contiguous United States. One of the sections that I find especially useful is the Agriculture page, which provides links to a variety of tools that can help producers plan for climate in the future at…
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Here is a nice corn growing degree day (GDD) tool for the US available from Nutrien at Nutrien GDD Tool (ag-wx.com). You can input the location, planting date, and maturity level and get a curve that shows the corn development stage. It is based on PRISM gridded weather data developed by Oregon State University. Some…
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While the focus of this blog is on climate and agriculture, a good understanding of agriculture also requires knowledge of the soil that you are growing your crops in. I was intrigued to hear about this website that provides a way to do interactive mapping of a number of soil properties across the country at…