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So far May has been feast or famine for rainfall in the Southeast. I saw standing water on the fields in northern Florida into southern Georgia as I drove back from Tallahassee to Athens last week, but dust clouds as I got close to home. This map shows the rankings of the month-to-date…
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Scientific American magazine reported this week on an article in Nature about some results of experiments on C3 plants in plots grown under increased CO2. The article can be found by clicking here. In the test plots, which were grown in open-top chambers containing up to 584 parts per million CO2 (compared to 400 ppm…
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Georgia FACES recently published a story which is based on a talk given by Carrie Furman and me to the annual meeting of Georgia Organics. You can find the link here. In the talk we discussed current trends in temperature, precipitation and other climate variables and their impact on crops, including an increase in the…
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You can read national highlights of April weather at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2014/4. The National Climatic Data Center produces an update of climate conditions around the country each month.
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The US Geological Survey has a new interactive web site which shows model projections of climate in the US compared to present conditions at https://www.usgs.gov/climate_landuse/clu_rd/apps/nccv_viewer.asp. This site allows you to look at projections of climate in 2050-2074 compared to the present for a variety of models, regions and months across the US. It focuses on…
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If you are interested in looking at short “on-the-ground” articles about crop conditions in southwest Georgia, you might want to visit Rome Ethredge’s blog, Seminole Crop News. He has a lot of interesting and timely observations on agriculture in Seminole County and surrounding areas, including the impacts of climate on pests and crop conditions. If…
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The warm pool of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean continues to move eastward, increasing chances for an El Nino to develop later this summer into fall. In winter, El Nino causes wet and cool conditions in south Georgia as the subtropical jet stream shifts right over the state, bringing clouds and plentiful precipitation with…
Posted in: Climate outlooks