The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that overall, the area affected by drought in the Southeast remained essentially the same as last week, but the severity of the drought increased in some places. Severe (D2) drought expanded in eastern North Carolina and a new area of severe drought…
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The mid-March freeze in 2022 hit the growers of many crops hard. One of these is Georgia’s production of greens. Clint Thompson posted a story in Specialty Crop Industry talking about how much their crops of turnip and other greens were affected by the low temperatures and brutal winds. You…
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The latest monthly climate summary for March 2022 is now available from the North Carolina State Climaet Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/04/drought-sprouts-at-the-coast-as-spring-takes-root-in-march/.
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If you live in the Southeast, you know that today, April 5, 2022, was a day that had a lot of severe weather action. I watched the radar and our University of Georgia weather network today to keep an eye on what was happening. I noticed in late afternoon that…
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While most of the Southeast is not currently in a drought, dry conditions and drought are a natural part of climate, so it is not surprising that droughts are currently affecting other parts of the world now. Here are some recent stories on drought I have read that may interest…
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Increases in temperature over time have many different impacts on plants and animals. Flowering plants and trees are blooming earlier, which may cause problems for commercial fruit production because the early bloom makes the plants more vulnerable to a late frost, for one example. This is a problem when one…
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A recent study published in Nature Communications by scientists from Texas and Hong Kong described new research on how fast flash droughts can develop. “Flash droughts” are primarily driven by little rain combined with high temperatures and mainly affect agriculture because of the plants’ needs for regular infusions of water….
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