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Munich Re, the international insurance company, has an interesting story on the combination of warmer winters and later frosts that are affecting crops in Europe. It begins, ” In the second and third ten-day periods of April, and in some cases even over the first ten days of May 2017, western, central, southern and eastern…
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Update: Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz4y4Dgrtyc. This week, the Georgia Climate Project hosted a webinar on the relationship between changing climate and health impacts. They should be posting a link to a recording in a couple of weeks, and when they do, I will post it on the blog. In the meanwhile, you can visit their…
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There are a couple of web sites I like to go to when the wind fields are interesting, and tonight is certainly one of those nights. Here is the streamline map of winds for the US from https://hint.fm/wind/. You can also find a color global map at https://earth.nullschool.net/. I will be watching these in the…
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Canadian farmers deal with a lot of variable and sometimes harsh weather conditions. Over time, they are being challenged in new ways as the climate gets warmer but also more variable in rainfall. At the same time, they have to deal with big cold outbreaks like the ones they have seen this week. The farmers…
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If you enjoy hiking in the mountains or just watching mountain scenery, you should be concerned about the changes that are occurring in mountainous areas across the world. This story from Outside magazine discusses how the loss of ice is making the high mountains much more treacherous because the ice that used to hold the…
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Zeta weakened today as it passed over the Yucatan, but it is expected to strengthen back to hurricane force before making landfall somewhere between New Orleans and Mobile sometime on Wednesday afternoon or evening. After landfall it will accelerate to the northeast–by the time it is over northern GA it will be moving at 30…
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According to Vegetable and Specialty Crop News, “Agricultural acres have dropped dramatically over the last 100 years throughout the Southeast. According to stacker.com, Georgia and Alabama were two of the top four states to see their farm land decrease the most.” The loss has come as farmlands have shifted to new housing developments as well as…
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