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With all of the cold air this year, chill hours for fruit are in good shape, and I’ve been told by peach experts that the buds are already swelling in the orchards, although they are not yet blooming. A good warm spell will probably be enough to break dormancy. But because we are not past…
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The latest seasonal outlook for March through May 2021 was released today by NOAA. It shows that for the month of March and for the March through May spring period, they are expecting most of the Southeast to lean towards warmer and drier than normal conditions. The long-range forecasts into early March are showing warmer…
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The latest webinar from the Georgia Climate Project will be held on Friday, February 26 from 11:00 to 12:30 PM online. The correct webinar registration link is below, followed by more information on the list of panelists, including UGA’s Dr. Marshall Shepherd. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TUNbDgirQTyH_OhZwWpHIA?fbclid=IwAR2QY31KWGUKkpKLA1JwqRH1-zogwT481WIh7pruBYdGVEVGUjBVMdq6eps Learn how climate change is impacting Georgia’s weather Georgia’s weather is changing—in…
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With all the cold weather in the central part of the country, it is no surprise that agriculture is taking a big hit in addition to all of problems that consumers are experiencing from loss of power, heat, and sometimes water. Here are a few of the stories I have read today. This is an…
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In the 1930s, tremendous dust storms blew across the Great Plains, with some dust reaching all the way to Washington DC. It has been attributed partially to climate variability and partly to land management patterns which plowed up the fields and left them bare, which made them vulnerable to strong winds. A change in the…
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If you have been following climate news, you know that NOAA will be updating their 30-year normals for temperature, precipitation, and degree days this year, most likely in May when they finish collecting and quality controlling the data they use to compute the new 1991-2020 statistics. This week NOAA released some more information about what…
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The tremendous cold that has covered Texas, brought snow to the beach in Galveston, and knocked out power to millions of customers in record-setting cold have also affected many producers across the state, including the fields in south Texas that usually produce a lot of food this time of year. According to The Packer, “it…