Tools for climate and agriculture
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I got a phone call today from a peach producer here in Georgia who was wondering why the chill hours this year are so low compared to previous years. For example, near my office in Watkinsville GA we have only received 28 chill hours from October 1 through yesterday compared to 79 in 2014, 62…
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In my series on sources of climate data I mentioned the regional climate centers as a great source of information both for specific regions and for national perspectives. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has a couple of new products that you might be interested in. One feature that has many national aspects is their new…
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The USGS has a nice tool for calculating the total amount of rain that fell in a storm. You can find it at their Water School site at https://water.usgs.gov/edu/activity-howmuchrain.html. Based on this tool, it has been estimated that the amount of rain that fell in the South Carolina flood was 11 trillion gallons of water, according…
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Much colder than normal minimum temperatures were felt across most of the Southeast on the morning of September 14. This map from the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool shows the ranking of reporting stations across the area. Several stations reported their all-time lowest temperature for the date, including Macon GA, Charlotte NC, and Jacksonville…
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A number of people have remarked to me here in Athens that this summer has been very nice. Temperatures have not been too hot and we have had some rain, although there have also been dry spells. The thermograph for Athens shows the daily variation in temperature below. Note that yesterday, August 12, was almost…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has a blog on a variety of topics related to climate in the Southeast. Today’s entry describes some research that their students are doing on the measurement of drought. One of the new products under development is a Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) which will include the impacts…
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Yesterday parts of Georgia experienced flooding rains. They were very localized and many areas received no rain at all. The NWS daily rainfall estimate from https://water.weather.gov/precip shows the spatial variability of rain across the area. You will note two areas of heavy rainfall in red in north-central Georgia centered on Athens-Clarke County and Morgan County…