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If you enjoy reading about history as much as I do, you will be fascinated about this brief history of weather forecasting put together by Chris Robbins, who runs iWeatherNet.com. Official weather forecasts have been produced by meteorologists for well over 100 years, first by the US Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau and now by…
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The snow in the upper Midwest last week highlighted several interesting features in the landscape. One of them was a tornado path from an EF3 tornado that traveled along a 40 mile long path through a forested area northwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin in 2007. The Weather Channel has a nice video and write-up of…
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An interesting story published this week in Phys.Org discusses the pattern of zebra stripes and attempts to determine how their patterns form. Researchers from the University of California published a report this week in Royal Society Open Science which shows a statistical relationship between the pattern of black and white stripes on zebras in different regions to…
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Rome Ethredge reported in the Seminole Crop E News this week that cold has damaged a lot of Canola and Carinata in southwest Georgia. Temperatures got down to 18 degrees a week ago and he says now is a good time to assess the damage. If the frost got down to the growing point, then…
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The latest 7-day QPF forecast for the Southeast shows that the heaviest rains in the next week will occur mainly along the south and east coasts of the region. This is due to two coastal storms that will be developing in the area. The first will develop off the East Coast later today then move…
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As expected, today both NASA and NOAA released their climate summary reports for 2014 and confirmed that last year was the warmest on record for the globe as a whole (since global records began in 1880). Also as expected, there was a tremendous amount of media attention to this announcement. The temperature map below shows…
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The Modern Farmer published an article this week on the growth of farming at high latitudes (https://modernfarmer.com/2013/10/arctic-farming/). The article lists several reasons for increasing agriculture in a challenging place, including changing diets of indigenous people, increased demand for local foods, and increases in temperature under a changing climate that is increasing the length of the…