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Jeff Masters of Weather Underground had several entries in his blog today about worrisome events happening around the world. One of the blog postings was on a new all-time May record high temperature for Europe. You can see the map below from his posting. This is the second time this month that the all-time May record was…
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Calvin Perry, superintendent of the University of Georgia Stripling Irrigation Research Park, posted their monthly newsletter today. Besides showing many of the projects at the park, the newsletter also provides links to a number of stories about how recent wet and dry weather have affected crops like pecans and corn in the Southeast as well…
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The blog at Climate.gov posted a new discussion of the current unusual mid-year El Nino and how it might evolve over the next few months. It is available here. The article discusses how this El Nino has come on much more slowly than most El Ninos in the past, which makes it a bit harder to…
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The Southeast Climate Consortium is a group of several universities around the Southeast who do research on a variety of topics relating to climate, water, and agriculture in the region. Their latest newsletter includes a list of upcoming meetings and webinars that you might be interested in attending as well as a list of recent…
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The Week posted an intriguing article this week on the continuing loss of soil from the United States and other parts of the world due to erosion caused by poor land management practices. Farmers and anyone who likes to eat depend on the presence of good soil to grow the food that feeds us all. …
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The Southern Regional Climate Center (based in Louisiana) announced a new Climate Extremes Portal today. It is available at https://extremes.srcc.lsu.edu/. This map-based product provides extremes of temperature and precipitation for each station across the country (not just the South). An example of the display for May 13’s record high maximum temperature is shown below. Note that…
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Rome Ethredge of Seminole County posted some pictures of the wheat harvest that is beginning in southwest Georgia this morning on his blog (link). He pointed out that some of the crop has been affected by fusarium head blight, which reduces yields. Dewey Lee, the UGA Extension agronomist, says that he has seen fields with…