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Dr. Bob Kemerait of UGA has an insightful column in the Southeast Farm Press on how weather and climate make predicting crop performance difficult. This year has been particularly bad with flooding rain in some areas and severe drought in others. As Bob points out, “the most important factor that the grower can do little…
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One of the more unusual stories this week was the report that respiratory distress linked to thunderstorms in Melbourne, Australia, caused thousands of asthma attacks and four deaths earlier this week. You can read more about it in the Capital Weather Gang here. The culprit was grass pollen which was concentrated ahead of the storm…
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On Saturday November 19, NOAA is planning to launch a new satellite into space. This satellite, known as GOES-R, will be the most advanced weather satellite ever developed. The GOES satellites orbit the earth 22,000 miles above the earth’s surface so they can remain directly over the same spot as the Earth rotates around its…
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The wind shifted direction today and Athens had less smoke than earlier this week, although you could see the smoky cloud band to the northeast. Other areas were getting the smoke instead. Here in Athens we will have a reprieve for a day or so as the winds turn to come from the south ahead…
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There is a great new resource available for free describing the relationships between climate and crops. It is an iBook recently produced by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University. Here are some comments about it from their press release: Dr. John Beasley, head of Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences,…
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If you’re wondering where the cold air is this time of year, you are not alone. A number of my friends have noted on Facebook how late the frost is to Minnesota and the upper Midwest this year and here in the Southeast we are later than normal as well. You can read about some…
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Allison Floyd wrote an interesting story in Growing Georgia this week about research underway at the University of Georgia to find a more drought-resistant strain of sorghum, which already does well in dry conditions. She reports: “When University of Georgia plant geneticist Andrew Paterson started to look for lines of sorghum that might survive in…