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  • Death of 90,000 rare antelope in ten days may be linked to climate

    Pam Knox

    May 26, 2015

    Tengri News reported on the mass death of over 90,000 rare Saiga antelope in Kazakhstan.  In the past ten days, the antelope have died at an alarming rate, leading to the death of almost 40 percent of the known population of these migratory antelope.  Scientists are still trying to determine the cause of so many…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Drought
  • Extreme weather–Are you ready?

    Pam Knox

    May 26, 2015

    You may have read the news about the extreme flooding that is occurring over the central part of the United States.  In Sunday’s post on climate data sources I showed a precipitation map from the Oklahoma mesonet; some stations reported more than 20 inches in the last 30 days!  You can read one story about…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops, Livestock
  • Corn planted in North Georgia; yields may be down due to El Nino

    Pam Knox

    May 25, 2015

    The Georgia Farm Monitor published a YouTube video news story this week about corn planting in North Georgia, which is finishing up now.  The link to the YouTube video is here. The story featured an award-winning farmer in Dawson County north of Atlanta, who won an award in 1973 for the first farmer in Georgia…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Extension agent outreach, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • New study shows that early spring may lead to early fall

    Pam Knox

    May 25, 2015

    Scientific American posted a story this month describing a new study by researchers at Harvard and Macquarie University in Australia on the onset of fall colors in trees.  Surprisingly, they linked the onset of fall colors to the onset of spring, showing that when trees experience an earlier spring, the tree also changes color earlier…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Forests
  • Earth’s hottest and coldest places: Infographic from EarthSky

    Pam Knox

    May 25, 2015

    EarthSky published an infographic earlier in May which describes the hottest and coldest temperatures on Earth.  You can find it here.  The hottest place in the US?  Death Valley CA, with a record high temperature of 134.1 F.  I was disappointed to see that they did not list the coldest record for the US though.…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Climate data sources: Mesonets

    Pam Knox

    May 24, 2015

    In addition to the network of weather stations run and maintained by the National Weather Service, there are a number of other public and private weather networks that collect weather and climate information.  These networks are called “mesonetworks” or “mesonets” because they cover a smaller region that then NWS network.  They also use different instrumentation…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data
  • Alabama and Northern Georgia will be the wettest part of the region this week

    Pam Knox

    May 23, 2015

    The 7-day QPF predicts that most of the Southeast will get less than an inch of rain in the coming week.  The exception is the western part of the region, including Alabama, northern Georgia and the western Carolinas, where  well over an inch is possible. After a great start to the Memorial Day weekend, rain…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks, Crops, Extension agent outreach
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