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Today marks the 75th anniversary of the national release of “The Wizard of Oz,” one of the most first movies to depict tornadoes and still one of the best, in my opinion. Not bad for a moving tube of fabric! The tornado looks just as realistic as many created by CGI in more recent tornado…
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The Covington (GA) NWS cooperative weather observer recently stopped observing, and a replacement is needed soon. This is one of the oldest records in Georgia, with nearly 150 years of records available. The observer would need to host an 8 inch rain gauge and a max/min electronic thermometer in a suitable open area and take…
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Nature published an article in June showing that using no-till agriculture cooled fields in Europe by up to two degrees C on the hottest days of summer. The cooling was caused by increased reflection off of the fields from the cover, which reflected more sunlight than the bare dark earth and kept the energy balance…
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A couple of articles this week discussed breeding tomatoes and sweet peas to take advantage of different weather and climate conditions while also improving marketability. Food Arts magazine described recent work by Calvin Lamborn, the first man to produce the commercial sugar snap pea in 1979. He is now working to produce new breeds with…
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Nearly 100 Extension agents and scientists from around the Southeast will be meeting in Athens GA in early September to study climate variability and change and its impacts on agriculture as part of the Southern Region Extension Climate Academy (SRECA). These participants were identified by their deans as agents with special expertise in row crops,…
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I was in Jekyll Island last week attending the Georgia Environmental Conference and saw this beautiful scene outside my hotel window one morning: The rays which appear to be stretching out from the horizon are called crepuscular rays, and are actually beams of sunlight shining through breaks in clouds below the horizon. You can…
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The 7-day forecast for the next week shows that there will be little rain across most of the Southeast except near the coasts and in south Florida. Temperatures should be cooler than usual to near normal. Because of the dry conditions that are expected, drought conditions may expand over the region. Farmers and agricultural…
Posted in: Climate outlooks