As I write this at 9:48 pm on the 26th, Major Hurricane Laura is just a few hours from making landfall as expected near Lake Charles LA and the border with Texas. It is just shy of a category 5 storm and could reach that before it makes landfall. In…
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With all of the thunderstorm activity we have been having, many people have noted the high frequency of lightning. But there are a lot of misconceptions about lightning that may make people’s behavior in thunderstorms more hazardous. EarthSky presents five myths about lightning and why they are false here.
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After a too-close call with heat exhaustion with one of our fine UGA extension specialists yesterday (they shall remain nameless–fortunately recovered), it seems like a good time to remind you that high temperatures and high humidity do not do good things to the human body (or livestock, for that matter)….
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Late Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning Hurricane Laura is expected to make landfall as a major hurricane somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border. The models still show some variation in path, and it could got a little farther west to Galveston-Houston, so the barrier islands there are being evacuated as…
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You already know about the damage caused by the incredible derecho that blew across the Corn Belt a couple of weeks ago. Now farmers are trying to decide what to do with their storm-damaged crops. Some were completely destroyed, but others may be salvageable for silage or even for grain…
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As of 11 pm on August 24, Marco is fading rapidly and was just downgraded to a tropical depression. It is not expected to last much longer. The center did make landfall over Louisiana before it turned west, but most of the rain was in the right front quadrant, where…
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As we watch two tropical storms move past us to the west, you might be wondering how livestock producers respond to the passage of a tropical storm or hurricane near their farms. This audio story from Yale Climate Connections describes how beef cattle respond differently to the storm than horses…
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