Tools for climate and agriculture
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Here is an interesting resource for farmers who want to learn more about resiliency. This is an online “flipbook” that allows you to read it by electronically flipping pages like a regular book. The book discusses resilient farming, including an overview of climate and weather, a description of different related risks that farmers have, and…
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This week is expected to be hot and humid across most of the Southeast. So hot and humid that it can be dangerous to do outdoor activities such as field work and exercise without taking proper precautions to keep from getting heat illnesses that can be life-threatening. Scientists use Wet Bulb Globe Temperature to determine…
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I’ve gotten some emails lately asking about how to report dry conditions and drought so that the Drought Monitor authors recognize that things are getting crunchy here in parts of the Southeast. Here is a refresher on what sites you can use to do it: There are a lot of different tools for monitoring drought…
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I am pleased to announce that there is a new tool for fruit growers worried about the occurrence of anthracnose on their berries. It was previously available to folks in Florida but has recently been expanded to southern Georgia as well. You can find it at AgroClimate – Blueberry Advisory System. This allows you to…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has added a nifty new tool to their website–a growing degree day calculator that you can use to calculate GDDs for any location in the Southeast, not just North Carolina. The calculator can be found at https://products.climate.ncsu.edu/ag/gdd-explorer/. You start by entering your location, picking a way to calculate GDD,…
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Do you know what plant hardiness zone you live in? It’s very useful information when you are trying to decide what plants to grow in your garden. The USDA plant hardiness zones are related to the average lowest minimum temperature at a location. Over time they have changed a bit as temperatures have gotten warmer…
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This week, NOAA announced a new interactive sea-level mapping tool on their Climate.gov page. The tool allows you to use an interactive map to see how sea level has changed over time at a number of sites along the coast. Once you pick one of the locations, it displays a graph showing how sea level…