Tools for climate and agriculture
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NOAA has just announced the availability of a new web site which provides a toolkit of information on how to become more resilient to changes in climate over time. It is especially geared to coastal issues, but there is a lot of information for all stakeholders there. For example, there is a carbon calculator for…
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One of the toughest things for climatologists to explain is what a 55 percent chance of El Nino or a 40 percent chance of an above normal winter is. Two examples of probabilistic forecasts are shown below. The pie chart is from AgroClimate.org and the bar graph is from IRI at Columbia University. Most people think…
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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…