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  • Webinar Recap: Southeast Climate Monthly Update and Heat Risk Tools August 10, 2021

    Pam Knox

    August 10, 2021

    If you missed today’s monthly climate update webinar for the Southeast, you can listen to the recording at the link below or view the online recap. Webinar recording can be found here. Share this recap using the online version. Next month’s Southeast Monthly Climate Webinar is on Tuesday September 14, 10:00am ET. Register here for…

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • Historic drought threatens California farms supplying much US food

    Pam Knox

    August 10, 2021

    What would you do if you had no water for your crops or livestock because of a multi-year drought that has dried up most surface water sources? Some farmers in California are trying to get water through pumping groundwater, but as more people pump, the water tables get lower and it becomes too expensive to…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops, Drought
  • Potential TS 6 headed for Florida

    Pam Knox

    August 9, 2021

    As of 11 pm tonight, Potential Tropical Storm 6 (soon to be known as Fred) is moving west into the Caribbean and then NW towards the Florida peninsula. Of course, since it is not even a named storm yet, there is a lot of uncertainty about where this storm will go and how strong it…

    Posted in: Tropical weather
  • Variable temperature, moist conditions across the Southeast in July 2021

    Pam Knox

    August 9, 2021

    NOAA has released their monthly climate summary for the US for July 2021. You can read the summary of conditions at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202107 or view that and many other national climate reports at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/. The summary shows that Florida and Virginia were the most above average in temperature, with other areas near or slightly cooler than…

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas

    Pam Knox

    August 9, 2021

    The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued their newest report today, and the news was filled with the disturbing results of the new study today. I am not going to address that today because you can read that from other news sources but did want to mention something associated with it that was overshadowed…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • Atlantic tropical season is picking up

    Pam Knox

    August 8, 2021

    The latest 5-day tropical outlook for the Atlantic tonight shows two areas of interest. The closer one may track over or near Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Cuba before approaching the US mainland, most likely as a weak storm. The farther one is less organized and who knows where it will go. There is also another…

    Posted in: Tropical weather
  • Reminder: Southeast Climate webinar Tuesday August 10 at 10 am ET

    Pam Knox

    August 8, 2021

    Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks, Climate summaries
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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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