Tools for climate and agriculture
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There has been a tremendous amount of hype the last few days about the coming cold outbreak that will be affecting most of the eastern 2/3 of the United States. Some bloggers and pundits have talked about “bombogenesis” and the return of the “polar vortex” and unprecedented cold temperatures. Dr. Michio Kaku, the so-called “science…
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Climate.gov published an interview this week with Ron Bartel, a senior hydrologist with the University of Florida. Bartel works with farmers in the Southeast who are interested in switching from conventional crop rotation to sod-based crop rotation. In the interview, Bartel discusses his use of the Water Footprint Calculator, which is available from AgroClimate, one…
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If you are looking for a point-specific hourly weather forecast for applications like spraying, you might be interested in this product from the National Weather Service. It is a graphical hour-by-hour forecast for your location (by lat/long) that is available online. For most of Georgia you can go to https://www.srh.noaa.gov/forecast/gridpoint.php?site=ffc and either enter your lat/long…
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It is approaching the end of the month, and most of Georgia except for the counties along the northern border and a patch in SW Georgia have experienced below normal rainfall, even in a month that is usually the driest month of the year. Parts of east central Georgia have only received between 10 and…
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Weather information is one of the most important things farmers need to know when planning daily and weekly work as well for longer-term farm management. Every producer I talk to has a different favorite source of weather data they like to use for their planning. Some sources include The Weather Channel and internet web sites…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center posted a direct link today to a NWS web site which provides easy access to some of their products, including some graphing capability. The direct link is https://www.sercc.com/nowdatamap and the product is called NOWData for NOAA Online Weather Data. An example of the kind of data product you can create…
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Yesterday’s USDA blog “Farmers go digital to confront changing growing conditions” highlights agricultural tools developed for the Midwest by the U2U group (“Useful to Usable”) at Purdue University and affiliated universities which show variations in climate patterns by El Nino phase and how they affect yields and other agricultural variables. You can see one of…