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Business Insider had an interesting story earlier this year about how domestication changed five different popular foods from something barely recognizable to something delicious. Check it out and see what your favorite food looked like before scientists and farmers worked their magic at https://www.businessinsider.com/common-foods-before-and-after-domestication-2016-2.
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Today’s football game in Athens is being played in temperatures far above normal, although they are not quite as close to record-setting highs as we experienced earlier this week. In fact, in much of the Southeast temperatures the last two weeks have been more like July or August than mid-October, although that should change tomorrow…
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Farmers still have a long way to go to recover from the winds and rain of Irma, almost a month after the storm hit. The Tampa Bay Times has an interesting story about impacts of Irma on one Florida blueberry grower, who lost roughly 100,000 plants to the storm. You can read it at https://tbo.com/news/weather/hurricanes/dade-city-blueberry-farm-still-recovering-after-100000-plants-damaged-by/2340576
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While you might know that PTSD, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a result of being in stressful situations like combat under fire, you might not know that it can also occur in people who have lived through a traumatic event like a tornado, hurricane or fire. Politico has an interesting story about the psychological toll…
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Watching video of the Michigan versus Michigan State football game downpour yesterday reminded me about some of the all-time great (from a weather standpoint) games I have seen in the past, including the Fog Bowl, Ice Bowl and Snow Bowl. You can read about them at https://weloveweather.tv/extreme-weather-football-collide/?utm_source=sportsweatherwlwtw100317&utm_medium=TW. https://weloveweather.tv/extreme-weather-football-collide/?utm_source=sportsweatherwlwtw100317&utm_medium=TW
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Meteorologists and climatologists as well as folks living along the coast and agricultural producers across the Southeast have been watching the current Atlantic tropical storm season with interest, concern and even horror as the storms moved towards and then across the region, causing tremendous devastation. We are still learning about all of the impacts that…
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While fall started on September 1 for meteorologists and climatologists, today is the first day of astronomical fall. Most of the Southeast will be feeling summer-like temperatures for a few more days before cooler air moves into the region in about a week. You can read more about why climatologists and astronomers have different definitions…