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A scientific article published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the US claims that raising beef cattle is much worse for the environment and global climate than production of other livestock such as poultry, pork or dairy. Their study was based on a detailed accounting of greenhouse gas emissions…
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NOAA reported that June 2014 was the warmest June on record in 134 years of measurements, following a record-setting May. Much of the warming was due to a surge in ocean temperatures, although the expected warming from El Nino in the eastern Pacific Ocean has not really occurred yet. The Washington Post and many other…
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The Midwestern Climate Center has made an easy-to-use portal to National Weather Service cooperative weather data archives on their website, called cli-MATE. Even though they are located in Champaign IL and cover the Midwestern states, the database contains information for locations across the US. The system is free to use but you need to create…
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The Packer wrote in a story on 7/17 that banana supplies could be affected by damage in Costa Rica and Columbia which destroyed or damaged a “very significant area” of banana-producing farms. While final damage assessments are still being made, some reduction in overall banana volume is likely. Click here to read the story.
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The National Hurricane Center has started putting out advisories on Tropical Depression 2, located in the tropical Atlantic. There is enough convective activity associated with the circulation to identify it as a closed circulation, which gives it depression status. In the short term, TD2 may strengthen slightly and could even gain named status in the…
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The National Weather Service in Peachtree City posted this radar image of a high-intensity rainfall event today in Heard County which shows that some areas of the county received eight inches or more of rainfall in just a few hours (regions in purple). However, the CoCoRaHS network has only one observer in Heard County, in…
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I’m excited to be attending my first NACAA (National Association of County Agricultural Agents) conference in Mobile AL this week. I’ll be participating in several sessions on climate and agriculture. If you are there, you might be interested in attending one or more of them. On Monday afternoon there are two concurrent sessions on Climate…
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