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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has just issued Part 1 of their 2014 Climate in Review. You can read it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=113&h=37a460a0.
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Good soil is one of the most important things producers need to make a good crop. Today the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN launched the International Year of Soils, noting that “soils are the foundation of family farming”. For resource material on soils and the IYS 2015, you can visit https://www.fao.org/soils-2015/en/.
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There have been several recent news articles discussing the effect of bad weather and climate conditions on crops. Here are a couple of the more interesting ones. AgWeb published an article today discussing the poor barley crop that has been produced this year. Much of the crop has been moved to the western US due…
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Warmer and wetter conditions than normal occurred across most of Georgia in December 2014. The rain eliminated drought across the state, although some patches of abnormally dry conditions were still present at the end of the month. For the state as a whole, temperatures were well above normal. While final statistics are not yet available,…
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You can find the latest summary for Florida for December 2014 at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-december-2014.
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The Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post had an excellent article about weather forecasting myths in this week’s column (link here). Maybe you’re guilty of propagating some of these myths yourself. Do you ever say that meteorologists are usually wrong? Or use the Farmers’ Almanac to get weather predictions months in advance? Or say…
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I woke up this morning to the sound of rain mixed with a little thunder as the cold front is getting near. The rain out ahead of it was falling pretty hard as I emptied my CoCoRaHS rain gauge. Once the front passes, much colder air will enter the state, eventually dropping temperatures into the…
Posted in: Climate outlooks