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Since it is fall, it is not surprising that stories about this year’s harvest are filling agricultural newsletters. Many of those stories link this year’s harvest conditions to the climate of the past growing season. Rome Ethredge noted in his Seminole Crop News blog that cotton harvest is well underway. The crop looks pretty good…
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Al Dutcher, the Nebraska State Climatologist and a self-proclaimed conservative, as well as other Nebraska scientists, have been tasked by their state to do a study of changes in climate over time and its impact on agriculture and other economic drivers of the state. However, because of an amendment put into the funding bill by…
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Dr. Marshall Shepherd, an atmospheric science professor at UGA, published a guest posting on the Capital Weather Gang blog at the Washington Post on the recent Ebola outbreak and what meteorologists have learned from challenges like Superstorm Sandy. If you deal with weather or other emergencies, you may be interested in his commentary, which can…
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Yesterday NOAA issued their latest winter weather outlook. The story is here and the maps are below. Their forecast is based on the likely (67 percent chance) development of a weak El Nino in the next two months which would steer the subtropical jet stream across southern Georgia and Alabama and Florida. While an El…
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One of the projects that support this blog has announced that they have a newly designed web site and national blog on animal agriculture in a changing climate. That blog previously covered just the Midwest but has now expanded to cover the entire US. You can find a description of the new blog and web…
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AgWeb reports that Illinois farmers are seeing what could be their best yields ever on corn this year, in a story here. The farmers say that the combination of timely rains with a relatively cool summer has led to great production by their corn plants, even though the crops are about a week behind normal.…
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The Pentagon released a new report this week which discusses how the military will prepare for adapting to changes in climate which could impact operations around the globe. In particular, rising sea levels threaten military facilities along coastlines, sea lanes will change as the Arctic Ocean becomes more open due to melting sea ice, and…
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