This week the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and its partners launched a brand new dashboard with a lot of information on climate, water, and drought in the Southeastern United States, particularly the ACF (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint) Basin. They thank you and all the participants in the design process for being…
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Fruit farmers in the Southeast have been concerned about the very warm temperatures in December and hope that more seasonal temperatures will return in January. The peaches and blueberries need a certain number of hours (called “chill hours”) below 45 F to set a good crop of fruit for harvest…
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Today the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City GA had an online webinar on winter weather. In it, they mentioned a few websites they have for people to use in decision-making that you might find useful. I don’t know if other NWS offices in the region have similar pages,…
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Got this update from the PRISM climate group in Oregon. Maybe it is something that you can use if you do climate studies: We are pleased to announce the release of updated PRISM 1991-2020 gridded normals datasets for the conterminous United States. Elements include precipitation; minimum, maximum, and mean temperature;…
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Smart farming requires the use of both weather observations and other tools for managing farm conditions. Here is a recent blog post by my UGA colleagues Simerjeet Virk and Matt Tucker describing different management software programs that can be used to manage your farms effectively. They allow the organization of different observations…
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It’s the time of year when I start to get questions about the likelihood of frost in the next week. Fortunately, there is a new online experimental tool available to help producers look ahead to see the likelihood of frost for at least the next six days. It was developed…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has a new map product that allows you to plot maps of trends in temperature and precipitation over selected time periods across North Carolina and the Southeast. The map shows positive and negative trends for individual stations across a time period you choose and…
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