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Soil quality is a key factor in plant productivity in agriculture. Every good farmer tries to preserve or improve their soil to assure healthy crops and good yields in the future. In fact, 2015 will be the International Year of Soils and December 5 of this year World Soil Day. I’ve run across several articles…
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Here is the 4 pm temperature map from the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network: And here is the surface analysis at the same time: Can you find the front on the temperature map? Cold fronts mark the boundary between warm air in place and the cold air that is advancing into the warm air. In…
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People have had weather folklore going back to at least the Bible (remember “Red sky at night?”). Here are a couple of stories about Indian summer and other weather sayings. Indian summer article from TheEagle.com Weather, as told by nature from DiscoverNatureNotes.com Farmers are particularly good at phenology, the study of weather and climate by…
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Climate modeling is something that is often attacked by those who are skeptical about projections of future changes in climate. Today I saw three articles which I think do an excellent job of explaining some of the difficulties with climate modeling. The first is a blog posting on our sister site, Animal Agriculture in a…
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In the past few weeks there have been many forecasts for the coming winter made online. Most are from bloggers with limited meteorological or climatological training, and should be taken with a large grain of salt. Others, from places like the Farmers’ Almanac, are mysteriously produced and vaguely worded so that they can claim they…
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Clouds are one of the main unknowns in understanding how climate might change in the future. Low clouds reflect sunlight back to space, cooling the planet, while high clouds trap heat near the surface, warming things up. Because of their temporary nature, they are hard to model adequately in global climate models, leading to uncertainty…
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The wind map tonight shows several features that will likely affect our weather in the next few days. The remnants of Typhoon Nuri are still spinning in the Bering Sea and are contributing to the strong wave pattern in the atmosphere. The strong flow of Arctic air into the central Plains can also be seen.…