Tools for climate and agriculture
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The National Weather Service noted that new experimental snowfall maps will be available this year for a number of stations across the US, including several in the Southeast. The new maps will show ranges of potential snowfall as well as probabilities of different amounts. That could provide some very useful additional information to what is…
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There is a great new resource available for free describing the relationships between climate and crops. It is an iBook recently produced by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University. Here are some comments about it from their press release: Dr. John Beasley, head of Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences,…
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A couple of Facebook posts this morning remind me that it is time to think about cold weather returning to our region. NWS Peachtree City has posted freeze warnings for Saturday night into Sunday morning for the northeast Georgia mountains. At least one of the CoCoRaHS observers has already reported temperatures down to 28 F…
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The smell of smoke outside my office today is very strong. It’s due to the wild fires associated with the drought that are occurring across many parts of the Southeast this week. Marshall Shepherd provides some information about the smoky conditions at Forbes.com here. EPA also has a good site which shows the track of…
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Earlier this fall EPA announced that they have updated their web resources on climate impacts in the Southeast. You can find information on trends in temperature and precipitation around the region as well as projections for future conditions at https://www.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-southeast.
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The USDA has published a new comprehensive resource book on practices that agricultural producers can use to adapt to variability and trends in climate. While the material is aimed at the Midwest and Northeast, there is a lot of information here that would also be useful to Southeastern farmers and extension agents. I especially like…
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USGS has a useful set of maps depicting the number of dry days or wet days in a row counting back from the current date. You can find them at https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/usraindry. Check out the map below showing the number of days since it has rained! Hat tip to Scott Doering, my Facebook friend, for sharing them.…