A website from UGA Cooperative Extension

Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

  • Home
  • Drought webinar on Friday April 24 at 10 am ET for Extension agents and farmers

    Pam Knox

    April 23, 2026

    Update: Video is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqnmMv3D95o. I am planning to do an agriculture-focused drought webinar on the current drought in Georgia for Extension agents and producers on Friday morning, April 24, at 10 am ET online on Zoom. If you would like to attend, you are welcome to come. I am also planning to…

    Posted in: Drought, Events, Extension agent outreach
  • North Carolina Drought One of Many to Watch as Southeast Dries to Record Levels

    Pam Knox

    April 23, 2026

    Here is a really interesting article that describes the current drought in North Carolina and the Southeast that you might also find interesting. It describes the current drought and how the tropical season may affect the drought later in the summer, including transportation hubs like regional airports. You can read it at iWeatherNet at https://www.iweathernet.com/wildfires-and-droughts/north-carolina-drought-record-levels.

    Posted in: Climate summaries, Drought
  • A website to create climate charts from the NWS

    Pam Knox

    April 23, 2026

    While I was working on slides for a talk tonight, I ran across this website from the National Weather Service that provides a way to generate temperature and accumulated precipitation graphs that I had not seen before. The accumulated precip graphs were very helpful for a presentation on the drought we are experiencing now in…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • How Niche Insurance Shielded Bad Bunny From Bad Weather

    Pam Knox

    April 23, 2026

    When you think of purchasing insurance to reduce risks from weather, you are probably thinking of crop insurance or specialized hurricane insurance. But you can also purchase insurance to protect against losses from bad weather for any outdoor event you might have. To do that, you typically have to have an official observation at the…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Severe
  • Rain is finally in sight!

    Pam Knox

    April 19, 2026

    After a very long dry period for most of the region, including a few mostly meager showers this morning with the cold front that passed through the region, we are finally starting to see a change in the weather pattern by the end of this week. While it will stay dry through Friday, on Saturday…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
  • The CoCoRaHS Annual Rain Gauge Rally continues through April

    Pam Knox

    April 19, 2026

    We are more than halfway through the month of April, which is the month in 2026 that the CoCoRaHS network works hard to recruit new observers to their network of volunteer weather observers. CoCoRaHS stands for Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, which started in Colorado in 1998 following a devastating flood in Fort…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Events, Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • A look ahead at the Georgia vegetable season

    Pam Knox

    April 19, 2026

    Fresh Plaza newsletter has provided a good look at the current conditions for growing vegetables in Georgia and surrounding areas and what is being planted and harvested. They also provide a look at how Georgia farmers pivoted their production following the devastating frost that hit Florida earlier in the spring. It also describes hot heat…

    Posted in: Crops
«Previous Page
1 2 3 4 5 … 1,191
Next Page»

Sign up for UGA Climate list

(Get one email per day)

* = required field

Funding provided by…

UGA logo, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

Archives

About this blog

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.

Recent Posts

  • Rain again this week but mostly in the wetter areas
  • Latest May outlook calls for equal chances of near, above or below normal rainfall except in SW Alabama
  • Everything You Need to Know About Turbulence
  • Rainfall in last week increased but not in all areas
  • Almost 60% of the region is in extreme drought

Categories

University of Georgia Extension
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Administration

Log in

UGA Extension © 2012-2026. All Rights Reserved.
The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity Institution.
Privacy Policy | Accessibility Policy | Report an Accessibility Barrier