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According to reports from earlier in June, North Carolina may have experienced its best strawberry season ever. A relatively mild spring with no major frost events helped growers prolong this year’s growing season. Growers were able to get an early start to the season using row covers, which allowed some plants to start flowering as…
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Hot off the presses is a new set of guides for hurricane preparation and recovery from the USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub. If you are a commercial producer in the Southeast, you are going to want to take a look at these guides to see how you can plan ahead for hurricanes and tropical storms…
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Today is Asteroid Day in remembrance of the impact of an asteroid (some thing a comet instead) in a remote area of Russia called Tunguska on this date in 1908. The blast of the explosion when it hit knocked down an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in eastern Siberia.…
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Have you ever looked at a map of the North Atlantic and wondered why there is an area in the North Atlantic Ocean that is getting cooler instead of warmer? Well, you are not alone. Scientists have been trying to understand this area for years. In the past it has been attributed to a slow-down…
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The frequency of hurricane activity at any specific location is something that I get asked almost every year, including this one. This question has special import this year with the impending Republican National Convention which was recently moved to Jacksonville, FL during August 24-27. So you might wonder what the chances are of having a…
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For those of you who produce hay and feed livestock, the headline above is probably a no-brainer. But I am still learning about how weather affects agriculture, so I was fascinated by this article that discusses how cutting hay in the morning results in a different nutrient composition of the hay than when you cut…
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Climatologists know that volcanic eruptions can emit sulfuric acid droplets that rise high in the sky and reflect sunlight back to space before it ever reaches the earth’s surface. This causes cooling which can last for up to several years, if the eruption is big. The last really big one we have had is Mt.…