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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows, that most areas of abnormally dry (D0) conditions remain the same, but that a small area of moderate (D1) drought was added to central Virginia this week. There were no changes to the Puerto Rico map, either. With relatively light amounts of rain expected in the next…
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The Packer reported this week that one of the consequences of the dramatic high temperatures in the Pacific Northwest is the impact on onions. Demand for onions is increasing as more restaurants open up, but the heat has caused problems for onions and stressed them. One result is that onions are maturing about a week…
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I am getting a lot of calls about the day after day of rain. It’s not just the amounts, which are sometimes large but often just a tenth of an inch or so. It is also the frequency, which is enough to keep farmers from being able to apply fungicides, growth inhibitors, and other treatments…
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Coastal areas of the Southeast as well as most of the rest of the world have seen increased flooding in recent years due to slowly rising sea levels, which are driven by a combination of warmer oceans and melting land ice. While a lot of this flooding has been more of a nuisance than dangerous…
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Here is an excellent piece describing trends in tornadoes in the United States over time from Yale Climate Connections. The online title asks if climate change is affecting tornado climatology, and the short answer is “not as far as we can tell now”. There are some trends towards seeing more tornadoes, especially weak ones, that…
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All of the rain that we have been having in the Southeast has caused a number of impacts. In addition to increasing the likelihood of fungal diseases and making it hard to get into the fields, it is also affecting the quality of crops like corn. This article and video from The Scoop discusses how…
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In The Garden Professors blog this week, John Porter of Nebraska Extension posts an article describing how water provides both necessary moisture and a contributor to diseases that can hurt plant growth, and in the worst cases, kill the plant completely. The article describes how water in the atmosphere contributes to the development of fungal…