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As part of National Hurricane Preparedness Week activities, NOAA has released its seasonal forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season today. The forecast shows that they are expecting fewer tropical storms and hurricanes this year than usual. primarily due to the effect of El Nino. In El Nino years, development of storms is often curtailed due…
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A heat wave in southeast India has caused the deaths of over 1,100 people over the last week. India recorded its highest maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius — 117 degrees Fahrenheit — at Angul in the state of Odisha on Monday, according to B.P. Yadav, director of the India Meteorological Department. The extreme high…
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AgWeb posted an interesting story from Bloomberg Businessweek on the history of agriculture in California which explains why they grow so much alfalfa there, even though it is a very water-intensive crop. Milk is the #1 agricultural commodity produced in California, edging out almonds and grapes. Much of it is consumed in-state, but quite a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…