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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News has provided several stories this week about how our weather this year has affected agriculture. Below you can find direct links to the stories. Alabama Pecan Producer Still Picking up Pieces Following Hurricane Sally Following Eta, Florida Farmer: Squash is Melting on the Plant Plethora of Plant Diseases Following Rainy…
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Around 11 pm on Monday, Category 4 hurricane Iota made landfall on the coast of Nicaragua just 15 miles from where Eta made landfall just a couple of weeks ago. This storm has winds of 155 mph, with torrential rains and storm surge of over 12 feet. The human costs of this storm are expected…
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UF/IFAS has a working group that provides information on cold hardy citrus such as satsumas to farmers in northern Florida and southern GA and AL. Their latest newsletter gives information on how farmers can minimize the impacts of cold weather on their plants and a good list of resources for Florida (sadly, it does not…
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According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, we have a 100 percent chance of a La Nina through winter, and a better than 90 percent chance through early spring. After that, the probability drops but stays above 50 percent through the March-May period before we go into the typical low probability in summer 2021. This is…
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If you are ever asked about your area’s climate risk due to changes in climate for later in this century, particularly around the 2040’s, you will find this new paper published by Springer in Natural Hazards to be very useful (it’s open access so you don’t have to pay to read it). The paper discusses…
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Unless you live in Florida, you are not likely to much if any rain this week. There is a small chance on Sunday as a weak cold front moves through the area, but by Tuesday a big high pressure dome will park over us, leading to nothing but blue skies and sunshine. Cooler air could…
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The latest global climate summary for October 2020 is now available from NOAA. It shows that for the earth as a whole, it was the 4th warmest October since records began in 1880. Only 2015, 2019 and 2018 were warmer. You can view the graphics and read the highlights at https://www.noaa.gov/news/remarkably-warm-october-fuels-march-toward-2nd-hottest-year and the full report…
Posted in: Climate outlooks