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Salty soil can be caused by a number of problems, including drought and a lack of rainfall to flush salts out of the soil, salt water intrusion and rising sea levels near the coast, and irrigation from salty aquifers. Over time, the salts build up and make it difficult to grow many types of crops. …
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This weekend should be mostly warm and dry across the Southeast. By Tuesday, chances for scattered light showers return and continue through the rest of the week. Temperatures for the next few days should be seasonal to slightly warmer than usual. The areas that do not receive rain from the scattered showers may experience some…
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The NOAA Climate blog had a long article last week on global impacts of El Nino on summer climate. It talks about what we might expect to see in other parts of the world this year and what the impacts are in the United States as well. You can read their blog here.
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Warm conditions in Georgia from April continued into May, but a pattern shift in the atmosphere caused a dry spell to dominate most of the state until late in May, when rain returned to the area. This shift caused both positive and negative impacts on agriculture in the state. Temperatures across the state were above…
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The journal Science published an article today which shows an updated historical climatology of global temperatures produced by NOAA. The newly revised temperature timeline shows that unlike previous analyses, the new timeline shows that there has been no substantial slow-down in the rate of temperature increase on the globe. The previous theory about the “hiatus”…
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William Shatner of StarTrek fame has proposed moving water through new massive pipelines from the Pacific Northwest down to California to support the agriculture industry there. He even started a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money to build those pipelines. But Cliff Mass, an atmospheric scientist from the University of Washington, has a different idea:…
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For meteorologists, June 1 through August 31 is considered summer. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released an updated outlook for June that shows a continuing increased chance of wetter than normal conditions for the month. Temperatures are expected to be above normal for the first half of the month but the average for the entire 30…