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I’ve been attending the Southern Chapter of the International Society of Arborists meeting this week in Mobile. I was fortunate to listen to Dr. Kim Coder of the University of Georgia discuss the impacts of winds and lightning on trees. He told me about several fact sheets that the Warnell School of Forestry at UGA…
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Now that spring has sprung, farmers are starting to get busy in the fields. Here are some recent stories about impacts of climate variability on crops around the country. The Packer reported that due to the record-setting warmth in California this winter, broccoli and cauliflower crops are up to two weeks ahead of schedule. Unfortunately,…
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March is the month for annual recruiting efforts for the CoCoRaHS precipitation network, in an interstate competition dubbed “March Madness”. North Carolina has one of the largest networks in the country, with over 900 active observers. In this week’s blog, they discuss the history of CoCoRaHS and the variety of people who use the rain…
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With the heavy rain that is expected for parts of the Southeast this week, you may need to know where to get flood information. The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center is a great source of information on all things related to water and hydrology. Their website is at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/alr. The image below shows…
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Climate Central has a new tool available to show how your city’s climate this past winter compares to all the other winters on record for that station. You can find the tool on the Weather Channel website by clicking here. Below I’ve compared Miami FL to Charlotte NC to show the differences between the northern…
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The Weather Underground blog published an interesting story today on the unseasonably early decrease in the Arctic sea ice (link). Normally March is when the maximum extent of sea ice occurs, at the end of the long winter season. However, this year satellite observations of sea ice extent show that the sea ice already appears…
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Recently AgFax.com published an article by UGA scientist Lenny Wells on the current status of peaches and pecans in Georgia. You can read the article here. In the article Wells discusses the chill hours needed by peaches and notes that because of the cold winter the peaches have received plenty of chill hours this year.…