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If you are an educator or know of one that teaches weather and climate, you might be interested in this offer from the Cloud Appreciation Society. They are putting together a free package of information about cloud identification that you can use for your teaching. It is also available for homeschoolers. They will be putting…
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Rain in the past week has made a small dent in dry conditions in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia as well as in South Carolina. Drought conditions have increased in Virginia, which largely got missed by this week’s rain. Puerto Rico’s drought status did not change from last week. With little rain expected in Virginia and…
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Several of my friends have commented to me this year how hard it has been to find a good live Christmas tree (especially at a reasonable price). There are a number of reasons for this, but one is that the weather has not been conducive to growing healthy trees. Here is a CNN story from…
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I am a co-author of the U. S. Global Change Research Project’s latest national climate assessment chapter on the Southeast. Some of the things that we look at are indicators of how climate is changing based on variables like temperature, precipitation, and related quantities like growing season length, heat waves, and other factors. If you…
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The dry weather we have had recently has had some benefits to farmers, according to my conversations with extension agents and this article from Vegetable and Specialty Crop News. Due to the low humidity and lack of rain to splash soil microbe onto the plants, disease pressure from fungal diseases is very low. This is…
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Wild pigs cause tremendous damage to farmlands and crops in the Southeast. A new study by University of Georgia researchers shows that the movement of wild pigs through the terrain depends on temperature and type of weather. This knowledge may allow farmers to more easily trap these pests before they can do too much damage.…
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You’ve probably seen many pictures of the devastation caused by the tornadoes that hit the Arkansas, Illinois, and Kentucky areas a few days ago. What you might not know is that the tornado that hit Mayfield, KY, also destroyed an Extension research farm near there. Fortunately, no one was in the building that night and…