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Citrus is one of the new crops that farmers are experimenting with in Georgia. Cold-hardy varieties like satsuma are being planted in warmer parts of the state as a way to take advantage of the warming climate as well as to take advantage of local food markets. One of the issues with growing citrus is…
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The latest ENSO outlook was released by NOAA today. It shows that the current La Nina is expected to continue through the March-May period, then neutral conditions are likely to take over. There is now a hint that we could see La Nina return later in the year. Two years in a row of La…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that an area of moderate (D1) drought has been added to the western end of the Florida Panhandle, stretching into Alabama. Other areas of moderate drought in Alabama have also expanded slightly and new areas of abnormally dry (D0) conditions have been added there. In the rest…
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Have you noticed the the recent weather forecasts have not been very good and certainly not very consistent for the past few weeks? Today’s warm temperature of 74 F in Athens was much higher than the morning forecast, which called for cooler temperatures in the 60’s and cloudy skies. The computer models that they use…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has released a new Water Resources Outlook on YouTube today. You can view the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZxyunHbkA&feature=youtu.be.
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With all of the rain parts of the Southeast have had, scheduling field work and figuring out when to apply herbicides can be an issue. Morning Ag Clips posted a story today that described some of the factors that need to be considered when trying to fit in applications. The story explains that if rain…
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On Twitter today, I found a reference to an interesting set of National Weather Service reports that describe past extreme weather events, including a number in the Southeast such as large hurricane events like Michael and Katrina and tornado outbreaks such as the major outbreak of 2011. These reports are geared toward both describing the…