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Recently Modern Farmer posted a story that quotes me and UGA Peach Specialist Dario Chavez on how warming temperatures are affecting Georgia peaches and how that may change in the future. Fortunately, there are a variety of ways that peach farmers can use to help deal with warmer winters, late frost, and lack of chill…
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I often talk about making a plan for what to do in case of a natural (or for that matter, man-made) disaster. Here is a great site for thinking through what you need in your plan and helping you put it together. It includes questions for your family to answer together, how to get your…
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With the hot and dry weather that parts of the Southeast have had in the past month, pecan growers are working hard to make sure that their trees survive the less-than-ideal conditions. In this UGA Pecan blog post from May, Lenny Wells describes the impacts that recent weather have had on pecans this year. He…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the rain this week will fall either in southern Florida or in the Southern Appalachians. South Florida is still experiencing the effects of Potential TS #1, which dropped over 10 inches of rain in parts of Miami yesterday; it is still raining there as the storm…
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The latest monthly climate summary for May 2022 for North Carolina has been released by the NC State Climate Office. You can read it at May Concludes a Warm Spring with Mixed Rainfall – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu).
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Yesterday I got asked about the difference between tropical, subtropical, and extra-tropical storms, so I thought I would share a little bit of information about the difference between them. The biggest difference has to do with the temperature structure of the storms. Tropical storms are warm-core storms, with warm air centered in the middle of…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that while the area of drought only contracted slightly, the area of abnormally dry (D0) conditions was cut substantially by the recent rain, as expected, especially in the mountains. We may see further reductions in drought this week based on the showery activity that we have seen tonight.…
Posted in: Drought