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Here’s a story from CTV News (from Canada) that does an excellent job of describing some of the severe consequences of the U. S. drought out west. It includes impacts on both crops and livestock and how it has affected agricultural production and food prices. You can read it at https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/american-farmers-are-killing-their-own-crops-and-selling-cows-because-of-extreme-drought-1.6031139.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that there were improvements in drought and dry conditions in Virginia and Georgia, minor changes in the Carolinas and Alabama, and a small new area of moderate drought (D1) along the East Coast of Florida. There were no changes in Puerto Rico this week. Rain in the…
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Researchers at the University of Georgia have helped identify causes of heat-related deaths in high school athletics and have led to new ways to practice that are much safer for outdoor activities in hot, humid climates. This NPR article and audio story describes the changes to practices that have improved athletes’ health and led to…
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Since it is halfway through August (already!), let’s take a look at the climate of the month so far. The map of precipitation departure shows that most of the region was drier than normal, but there were areas of wet conditions. The map of precip percentages shows how little of the region had near normal…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has a fascinating look at historical temperature records in their state in this week’s climate blog. In their post, they look for the warmest hour ever across North Carolina and discuss how they use historical climate records to determine that golden hour. They have the complications of an ocean…
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One of the secrets of the trend towards warmer temperatures over time is that a lot of the warming is not occurring during the day but at night. In Georgia, overnight low temperatures are rising at a rate that is double the increase in daytime high temperatures. This has special consequences for human and animal…
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Studies of past weather and climate events can be useful in terms of helping us to figure out current and future climate, because they give us a way to test climate models and assumptions about climate behavior. This story from Yale Climate Connections describes a volcanic eruption that occurred in Alaska in 43 BCE that…