Tools for climate and agriculture
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Crystal Powers of the University of Nebraska, and one of my teammates on the Animal Ag and Climate Change project, pointed out a neat web site which allows you to look at projected changes in a variety of climate and agricultural values. Even though they list it as for the Pacific Northwest, it actually allows…
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A new website which collects information on wildfire in the Southeast is now available at https://southernwildfire.net/. This website collects information on wildfire research geared towards Southeastern wildfires as well as shares success stories on dealing with forest fires. It includes information on SouthWRAP, the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment online mapping tool, an evaluation tool for assessing your…
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For those of you wondering how to know when to expect high levels of heat stress on livestock, the USDA has a great web site which contains daily heat stress maps for the US for up to a week ahead. Today’s forecast for Monday June 13 shows high levels of heat in a large area of…
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In my previous post I discussed the impacts of high heat on outdoor workers. Another source of stress is poor air quality, which can be either from high particulate levels or from corrosive ground-level ozone. Both of these can put stress on breathing in vulnerable populations. You can get air quality information from the Environmental…
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Spring has ended and the preliminary statistics show that for many areas in the Southeast, temperatures were much above normal, placing them in the top ten warmest on record. A number of stations were also in the top ten driest on record, particularly in the areas that are now experiencing drought. A few coastal stations…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has a good source of NWS cooperative weather data linked on their web site at https://sercc.com/nowdatamap. When you click on the link, it provides access to NOAA’s xmACIS data server for the NWS station in the area you clicked on. It’s a menu-driven source of climatological data like daily temperature and…
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Now that hot summer temperatures are coming on, you might need information about the likelihood of heat stress injury to your livestock. USDA has a set of forecast maps which show the likelihood of heat stress each day for the next week based on weather forecast models (the forecasts are produced as a partnership with the National Weather…