Tropical weather
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The USDA’s Southern Research Station posted an article discussing the replacement of loblolly pines with longleaf pines after damage by hurricanes or other strong wind events. Longleaf pines are more resilient to wind and forest fire damage and are also less affected by pine beetles, but have been largely replaced by loblolly pines grown in…
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AgWeb reported that fears about damage to the citrus industry from Hurricane Hermine caused futures prices of orange juice to rise in advance of the storm’s landfall. Florida is the second biggest orange juice production region after Brazil. Cotton futures also rose as flooding was expected in areas with significant cotton production. You can read…
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press has a story today about the impacts of Hermine on the pecan harvest in Georgia. The worst part of the state’s damage was in the lower southeast part of the state; fortunately, winds were less damaging in other areas, so the state’s total production will not be as…
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The preliminary damage reports of Hermine’s passage through the Southeast show that the majority of the damage was due to power outages and downed trees, with a few reports of isolated tornadoes. Online Athens reported that over 107,000 homes in Georgia and an estimated 325,000 people in Florida lost power during the storm’s passage but…
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Jeff Cook, the Ag Extension agent in Georgia’s Taylor and Peach Counties, wrote a fantastic piece in the Three Rivers Ag News blog about the impacts of Hermine’s rainfall on a variety of crops in middle Georgia. I am reposting it here in its entirety. If you are interested in seeing more of this blog,…
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The Climate Prediction Center issued their monthly outlook for September this week. It shows above normal temperatures are likely for the entire region in the coming month. Dry conditions are expected in northern Alabama and northwest Georgia but wet conditions are expected along the coast. No doubt the fact that this forecast was issued on…
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Apologies to those readers who are not in the Southeast–one last blog post on TS Hermine. The 11 pm outlook for Hermine shows that the storm has strengthened somewhat over the evening and is now expected to come ashore as a hurricane. The path has shifted ever so slightly to the east due to the latest…
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