Tools for climate and agriculture
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center posted a note on Facebook today saying that they had received many inquiries this month about the number of rainy days in September. They posted a couple of maps which show the number of days with precipitation of at least 0.01 inches and the ranking of the count for each […]
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I am giving an online class on sources of weather and climate data for extension training this week. In preparation for this class, I have collected a list of sources of data that might be useful to all of you. I am providing it here for those of you who are not attending the webinar. […]
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The National Weather Service has a product available on the web pages for their forecast offices that may be of some use for planning purposes up to five days ahead. It is called the “Graphical Forecast’ and an image of the interactive map is below. By moving your mouse over the different boxes in the […]
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The evaporative stress index is a way of measuring rates of evapotranspiration from plants and the ground using satellite data. The higher the rates of water use, the more negative the evaporative stress index. The two maps below show the maps for September 2 and September 8. You can see that on September 2, […]
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Two new interactive viewers from NOAA’s Coastal Services Center are available online and provide a detailed look at coastal areas across the US. The C-CAP viewer allows you to look at changes in land use from 1996 to 2010 in many areas of the Southeast, although only counties relatively near the coast are included. You […]
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Climate Central has a new graphing tool which shows how this summer compares to temperatures in previous summers. There are just a few cities in the Southeast but it is fun and interesting to see how temperatures varied across the US. You can access the tool at https://www.climatecentral.org/news/us-summer-temperatures-comparison-17942. (Note that I had trouble visualizing the […]
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The recent dry conditions have produced a number of negative impacts on agriculture in the Southeast. Rome Ethredge noted in his Seminole Crop E-News blog that dryland peanuts have taken quite a hit with very spotty rains in some areas. He noted that decreased yields are likely in the driest fields. There have been increases […]