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  • Before and after NASA images show how people are changing the planet

    Pam Knox

    April 9, 2015

    This week VOX published a series of spectacular images which show how humans are changing the planet through agriculture and urbanization as well as abandonment of areas under drought and nuclear disasters.  You can view these images at https://www.vox.com/2015/4/7/8352381/anthropocene-NASA-images.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Interesting weather images
  • March 2015 climate statistics for the US

    Pam Knox

    April 9, 2015

    NOAA has released their climate summary for the US for March 2015.  The maps below show that while the west continued its record-setting warm conditions, the eastern US was split between areas that were slightly above normal (including the Southeast) where it was dry and below normal temperatures where it was wet.  March was the…

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • Record highs on April 8; more of the same on the 9th?

    Pam Knox

    April 8, 2015

    The Southeast Regional Climate Center has a useful display tool for showing the rankings of observed temperature values at NWS stations around the Southeast.  Today a number of stations in the region set record high temperatures and a few more set record high minimum temperatures.  The tool also allows you to look two days ahead…

    Posted in: Climate summaries, Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • Maps of average start of greenup on agricultural lands

    Pam Knox

    April 8, 2015

    I ran across a fascinating set of maps on the average date of greenup on agricultural lands today.  This set of maps is provided by ForWarn, which is the satellite-based tracking service of the US Forest Service.  You can find them at https://forwarn.forestthreats.org/highlights/918#.  One of the most interesting things to me is the extent to…

    Posted in: Interesting weather images
  • New definitions for severe weather from the NWS Storm Prediction Center

    Pam Knox

    April 8, 2015

    EDENotes blog posted a story today on new definitions for severe weather threat from the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center.  You can find the blog entry here. The Storm Prediction Center has provided these new categories to make the daily threat levels more clear and explain what kinds of severe weather are likely to…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
  • Why no seasonal tornado forecast?

    Pam Knox

    April 8, 2015

    Each year NOAA and other groups put out a forecast for the expected number of tropical storms and hurricanes expected to occur in the Atlantic basin.  This forecast is based on the El Nino phase as well as other factors such as long-term ocean patterns and past seasons.  But there is no similar forecast for…

    Posted in: Climate science
  • Peanut weather update

    Pam Knox

    April 7, 2015

    Peanut planting is about to get underway across many parts of the South as soil temperatures in south Georgia and Alabama generally rise above 70 F during the day and no cold weather is expected.  In general, planting begins around mid-April once the threat of cold weather has passed, since peanut germination is poor at…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks, Crops
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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