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  • NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheets (NEWIS)

    Pam Knox

    August 27, 2021

    If you are in a coastal county and are likely to be threatened by extreme weather related to coastal storms, you might find these information sheets to be useful. They contain phone numbers, links, and other information for use in emergency situations, particularly tropical storms and hurricanes. You can find the map of available counties…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture, Tropical weather
  • TS Ida expected to make landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as a strong hurricane

    Pam Knox

    August 27, 2021

    Today Tropical Storm Ida developed south of Cuba as expected. It is currently predicted to move NW into the Gulf of Mexico, where the very warm water there will help it spin up to a major or near-major hurricane before it makes landfall along the Louisiana coast on Sunday. Once it gets over land, it…

    Posted in: Tropical weather
  • State of the Climate 2020 report released

    Pam Knox

    August 26, 2021

    Earlier this week, NOAA released their 31st annual State of the Climate report jointly with the American Meteorological Society and published it as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the AMS. As expected, it shows rising temperatures and new record-high released in greenhouse gases. Notable findings from the international report include: Earth’s greenhouse gases…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate summaries
  • Gardening: What to do when the soil stays too wet

    Pam Knox

    August 26, 2021

    While there is a drought out west, here in the Southeast we have seen an abundance of rain this year. That has led to very wet soils and all the problems that go with them. Here is a good story from Morning Ag Clips on approaches you can take as home gardeners to help your…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
  • Tropical outlook

    Pam Knox

    August 26, 2021

    I’ve busy with two conferences this week, including the UGA Ext Emergency Prep Small Team Members group (hello, new subscribers!) so have not posted much. Here’s a brief update on the tropics for planning purposes. It won’t surprise you to know that the Atlantic is quite active right now. We are entering the peak time…

    Posted in: Tropical weather
  • Webinar: Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones and Their Relevance to Risk in Florida

    Pam Knox

    August 22, 2021

    August 26, 2021 | 3:00 pm EDT Florida BRACE announced a webinar this week that you might find of interest. Presented by Jake Carstens, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University. Tropical cyclones frequently impact Florida, and recent hurricanes have included Irma (2017), Michael (2018), and Sally (2020).…

    Posted in: Climate science, Events, Tropical weather
  • Recent climate stories of interest

    Pam Knox

    August 22, 2021

    My Windows queue is getting filled with links to a bunch of climate-related stories that I found to be of interest in the last couple of weeks. Most of them are related to recent extreme weather and climate events that have occurred around the US and the world. You might be interested in some of…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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