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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the drought in Florida deepened from moderate (D1) to severe (D2) in the south. Abnormally dry conditions (D0) expanded in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and two small areas of moderate drought were introduced to NC this week due to continuing lack of rainfall. Moderate drought…
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In case you did not know it, yesterday (March 21, 2023) was National Ag Day, a day when we celebrate all those who work in agriculture. You can read more about the day at https://www.agday.org/ as well as see photos of events in Washington DC yesterday. You can also read a story about it in…
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Here in the Southeast US, we aren’t really thinking about tropical storms at this time of year, but in other parts of the world, they can occur in almost any month of the year. This year, Tropical Cyclone Freddy started as a tropical storm in the eastern Indian Ocean on February 6 and moved westward…
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Are you interested in learning more about flash drought or describing how it has affected your community? You may be interested in attending this upcoming workshop on flash drought to be held in Boulder CO on May 2-4. I plan to attend and hope to see a few of you there. Information on the workshop…
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NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information System) has provided an online dashboard of current drought and water conditions in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system for use in monitoring ongoing conditions in the Alabama/Georgia/Florida river basin. You can visit the dashboard at https://www.drought.gov/watersheds/acf-dashboard and sign up for their newsletter as well as see the current and predicted future…
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After a cold start to this week, with freezing conditions down into central Georgia and Alabama, a pattern shift is expected to bring warmer conditions back to the region for the next few weeks. This will allow farmers to take advantage of warmer soil temperatures to get corn and other crops into the ground in…
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Atmospheric rivers have brought prodigious amounts of rain and snow to California’s coast this winter. The rainfall has reduced drought levels significantly and refilled drastically shrunken reservoirs. Some farmers have been able to help recharge groundwater by flooding their fields with the excess runoff, which will help production later this year and in subsequent seasons.…