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Here is a really interesting story about how citrus was brought back to Georgia as temperatures have increased over time. The crop was brought back by producers one by one, but is now growing rapidly as the climate becomes more suitable for citrus trees due to the rising temperatures. Citrus produced in Georgia can be…
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Our next monthly climate webinar is being held on Tuesday, January 12, at 10 am EST, its usual time. This month’s special topic will be wildfires in the Southeast. Along with that we will have an overview of climate and water resources as well as a look at agricultural impacts. You will learn more about…
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The latest monthly climate summary for December 2020 is now available for the Southeast from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportDecember2020.pdf.
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This time of year I get a lot of questions about what we can expect for the weather in the upcoming growing season. There are several groups and individuals that provide outlooks on what to expect. One of these experts is Brad Rippey of USDA. This article from AgWeb provides Brad’s description of current conditions…
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In past blog posts I have discussed the use of proxy data to determine temperatures and precipitation from the past. Tree rings can go back hundreds of years, ice cores can go back thousands to 100,000 years or more, and other records like pollen in lake deposits can also provide clues to climate at particular…
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If you read climate summaries often, you know that most descriptions of what the climate was like in a particular month or year is put in terms of a departure from normal. But what is ‘normal’? For climatologists, ‘normal’ is a 30-year average of temperature or precipitation which is intended to describe the expected climate…
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The climate summary for December and 2020 as a whole for North Carolina are now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=330&h=5666e5c1.
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