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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…
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While we here in the Southeast have been the beneficiaries of the current atmospheric wave pattern and its cooler temperatures, our friends in the western US have had the bad end of the stick. Not only are they seeing an extended and extreme drought, but they have also been experiencing record-setting high temperatures that are…
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Most of the region will see rain amounts that are close to the weekly average. The majority of the rain will fall before Monday night except in south Florida, which will see rain all week. The driest area will be northern Virginia. Daily scattered showers will fall across the area but most will be relatively…
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