Tools for climate and agriculture
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Here is a useful article for those of you who are home gardeners and are starting to think about planting fall crops. It’s from The Garden Professors blog, the other blog I contribute to. This one is written by John Porter of University of Nebraska Extension. He includes a map that shows fall frost dates…
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NIDIS is pleased to announce two new interactive features on Drought.gov that will make it easier for decision makers and the public across the U.S. to share timely, reliable drought information. First, new customization and sharing options for all maps make it easier than ever to create custom, high-quality maps to include in drought or risk mitigation…
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The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued their newest report today, and the news was filled with the disturbing results of the new study today. I am not going to address that today because you can read that from other news sources but did want to mention something associated with it that was overshadowed…
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This week NOAA announced that there is a new section of the US Climate Resiliency Toolkit that is devoted to the Southeast. The section features narratives, tools, and case studies on the impacts of climate change across the Southeast, and information on how people can build resilience to them. You can check out the new…
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Here’s a great new tool for mapping the new normals to any area across the US. The Northeast Regional Climate Center has produced this new tool at NCEI Gridded Normals Mapper (rcc-acis.org). It allows you to look at monthly or annual normals for states, counties, and other regional designations. After you look at that part…
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You have probably read here or elsewhere that NOAA just updated the normals for climate data across the US. They went from the 1981-2010 averaging period to the 1991-2020 averaging period. The results for most of the country were that the new normal temperature was higher than the old ones, and precipitation also went up…
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I know that farmers in South Georgia are busy planting when they can get into the fields, and that cotton and peanuts are some of the main crops being planted right now. I was interested to read a story about cotton planting in the Southeast Farm Press relating planting to 10 A.M. soil temperature of…