Tools for climate and agriculture
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This week NOAA announced that there is a new section of the US Climate Resiliency Toolkit that is devoted to the Southeast. The section features narratives, tools, and case studies on the impacts of climate change across the Southeast, and information on how people can build resilience to them. You can check out the new…
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Here’s a great new tool for mapping the new normals to any area across the US. The Northeast Regional Climate Center has produced this new tool at NCEI Gridded Normals Mapper (rcc-acis.org). It allows you to look at monthly or annual normals for states, counties, and other regional designations. After you look at that part…
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You have probably read here or elsewhere that NOAA just updated the normals for climate data across the US. They went from the 1981-2010 averaging period to the 1991-2020 averaging period. The results for most of the country were that the new normal temperature was higher than the old ones, and precipitation also went up…
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I know that farmers in South Georgia are busy planting when they can get into the fields, and that cotton and peanuts are some of the main crops being planted right now. I was interested to read a story about cotton planting in the Southeast Farm Press relating planting to 10 A.M. soil temperature of…
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If you are planting peanuts now, you will want to keep an eye open for how far along your peanuts are. You can use Days After Planting (DAP) to determine how mature your peanuts are, but another option is to use Adjusted Growing Degree Days (AGDD), which is based on temperature and accounts for year-to-year…
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If you worry about excessive heat and humidity and its impacts on your outdoor workers or on your exercising students, you may be interested in this new climatology of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) across the Southeast. This set of maps from the Southeast Regional Climate Center provide month by month images of how WBGT…
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I was astounded to see how much rain fell this weekend due to the storm which passed through the region. The UGA weather station at Seminole State Park recorded 7.87 inches of rain in the far southwestern part of Georgia, and another station at Alma in Bacon County recorded 7.66 inches. Both of those fell…