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If you’ve been following international news lately, you know that Cape Town, South Africa, is about to run out of water after several years of a devastating drought. They have been undergoing significant water rationing and even so, are expected to run out of water by July 7. This is a huge city and it…
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A few of you have asked for a summary of the 2017 climate and a peek into what is likely to be ahead for the 2018 growing season. While I don’t have a crystal ball to give definitive answers, I can at least look into the haze and tell you what I think might happen.…
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Due to the combination of hurricanes this year, especially Irma, and citrus diseases like citrus greening and “Yellow Dragon Disease”, the yield of orange this year could be the lowest since at least the 1944-45 season according to a Yahoo News article in late December. According to the story, “Forecasters are projecting a yield of…
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If you are interested in looking at long-term trends in climate across the US, this “Beyond the Data” article by Jake Crouch does a great job of explaining where to get trend data and how to interpret it. I use NCEI’s tooks like the “Climate at a Glance” tool all the time when I give…
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While I’ve been away, a number of stories on the 2017 year in review have shown up in the media. Here is a selection of what they are saying: New York Times: The Year in Climate Washington Post: The Ten Most Incredible Photos from an Asounding Year in Weather Medium: Stu Ostro’s Meteorological Images of…
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I am working on putting together one of five talks I will be giving in the next three weeks, this one on the 2017 hurricane season and what it could tell us about hurricane seasons in the future. As I was putting it together, I ran across this sobering article from New York Magazine on…
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Here is an interesting story about how farmers in the Plains are returning to tilling after years of no-till. The concept of no-till was driven in large part by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when tilled fields literally blew away in the strong winds that accompanied the major drought then. The article’s title is…