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The North Carolina State Climate Office has added a nifty new tool to their website–a growing degree day calculator that you can use to calculate GDDs for any location in the Southeast, not just North Carolina. The calculator can be found at https://products.climate.ncsu.edu/ag/gdd-explorer/. You start by entering your location, picking a way to calculate GDD,…
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Here’s a story from back in December that discusses the advantages of combining solar farms with agriculture, which could include either crops or livestock, to produce multiple benefits, including shading and cooler temperatures for the livestock and cooler soils for the crops. Even though there is some shading, there is still plenty of light for…
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This week farmers and extension agents were hard at work across Georgia and other Southeastern states assessing the damage from the frost on Sunday, March 13. Here is a brief summary of the comments I have received from my colleagues and friends on what they have seen. Keep in mind that some frost damage, particularly…
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Here on this blog, we celebrate the beginning of climatological (some call it meteorological) spring on March 1. But we also mark the start of astronomical spring, which begins this year on March 20 at 11:33 am ET. This is the date on which the days and nights are of essentially equal length. If you…
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Most of the region will see dry conditions this weekend after yesterday’s frontal passage. Another storm system is expected to move through the region mid-week. That will bring more rain and potentially some severe weather to parts of the region again through Thursday. As that system exits, drier conditions will return to the Southeast by…
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Today was a good day for many people to observe how water droplets move on car windshields, at least here in Georgia. Science News noted this week that a new study shows that the movement of the droplets up or down the windshield depends on the size of the drop. The larger drops move downward…
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NOAA released their spring outlook today. It shows a continuation of the extreme drought that has been ensconced in the West over the next few months, and since summer is already typically dry there, that means the drought will get even worse over 2022 before the rainy season returns late in the year. Other areas…
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