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  • El Ninos don’t all look the same

    Pam Knox

    March 25, 2015

    The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory released a short article this week describing research to be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.  In the article it discusses the variability in temperature distributions in different El Nino episodes.  Some episodes feature strong temperature anomalies, while others are weaker.  Some favor the strongest warming near…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Climate Prediction Center is launching an updated web site

    Pam Knox

    March 25, 2015

    At CPASW today we learned that the Climate Prediction Center is in the process of updating their website to a new, cleaner and more interactive model.  You can view the new beta version of the website at https://www.cpcpara.ncep.noaa.gov/.  This site will combine much of the functionality of the old web site, including climate and drought outlooks,…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • Updated climate normals show shift in planting zones

    Pam Knox

    March 25, 2015

    If you have a home garden or plant according to the USDA plant hardiness zones, you might be interested in this recent article from NOAA’s Climate.gov (link).  In the story, the impacts of changing normals every ten years on planting zones is explained and maps show the differences between the old planting dates and the…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Irrigation apps for your smartphone

    Pam Knox

    March 24, 2015

    Dr. George Vellidis of the University of Georgia and cooperating scientists at several other Southeastern universities have developed several irrigation applications for smartphones as part of their work on the USDA NIFA program. Currently apps are available for cotton, citrus, strawberries and urban lawns.  You can learn about these apps and download them at https://smartirrigationapps.org.…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • Climate Explorer allows you to visualize climate info in maps and graphs

    Pam Knox

    March 24, 2015

    I am attending the Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop this week in Las Cruces NM.  The theme of this year’s meeting is agriculture.  After one day, my mind is already full of new web sites to visit and tools that might be useful to those of us who use climate information to make production decisions.…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • Happy World Meteorological Day!

    Pam Knox

    March 23, 2015

    Each year on March 23, the World Meteorological Organization, along with its 191 members — including the National Weather Service — and the worldwide meteorological community, celebrates World Meteorological Day. This day commemorates the formation of the WMO. This year’s theme is “Climate knowledge for climate action,” highlighting both recent advances in climate science and…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Events
  • New CoCoRaHS rain gauge in White House kitchen garden

    Pam Knox

    March 23, 2015

    I want to take a minute to salute the CoCoRaHS network, who announced today that an official CoCoRaHS rain gauge will be installed in the White House kitchen garden planted this week by Michelle Obama.  The addition was celebrated today in Washington DC as part of the National Science Fair activity at the White House.…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Sources of weather and climate data
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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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