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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has just posted their summer summary along with an outlook for fall. You can read it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=98&h=37a460a0. They include an outlook for fall colors, so if you are traveling to the area, you might want to take a peek.
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For meteorologists, fall runs from September 1 to November 30. We are often asked why we don’t use the astronomical fall calendar for our calculations (this year astronomical fall starts on September 22). The answer is a combination of convenience and providing the best match between the calendar and the seasonal characteristics. A good explanation…
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David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, sent along this note on yellow flies in the Southeast: Folks who frequent or work outside close to wooded areas in Florida and the Southeast in the summer are familiar with yellow flies. What we call “yellow flies” often refers to several different species including deer flies, true yellow…
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A new session of the free online course “Animal Agriculture and Climate Change” is being offered starting on May 1. This 12-hour self-paced course covers basic climate science as well as specific impacts on different animal species, adaptation and mitigation, and ways to communicate this information to others. The course also offers continuing education credits…
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The Extension Plant Pathology group has just released their April 2014 newsletter. In it they describe a number of impacts from the past winter, including injury to ornamental plants due to three major freeze events and increase in spring diseases like rust due to recent wet conditions. They also discuss how the cold winter did…
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