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I ran across a couple of interesting climate web sites this week that you might find useful. The first is a web site which shows diurnal climatologies of a variety of weather factors for each month of the year for a selection of cities across the US. “Diurnal” means it shows how these variables change…
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The latest round of rain has eliminated all drought from the Southeast, although a few patches of abnormally dry conditions (D0) remain and a small area of D0 was introduced just northwest of Birmingham AL. The driest areas are expected to receive above-normal rain over the next week, so those dry areas may be eliminated…
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If you follow the news at all, you know that a lot of the Southeast is expected to experience the effects of a very large plume of dust blowing west off the Sahara desert all the way across the Atlantic Ocean and into the Southeast. Because of the weather pattern right now, it will probably…
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Since we have been celebrating National Pollinators Week, I’ve seen quite a few stories about the importance of pollinators like honeybees, especially to agriculture. Here is a story from Europe describing the method of combining strips of crops interspersed with trees and how it can double the number of pollinators. You can read more at…
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The Southeast is no stranger to hot summers, and livestock producers already have management plans in place to keep their animals safe during the hottest periods. This year it’s especially important to watch heat stress carefully, since many producers are holding off selling their cattle to see if the market improves, so keeping their full-size…
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My friend John Feldt is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist who provides weather and climate information to producers across the country. He posted this great summary of this year’s severe weather season on his site at https://www.bluewateroutlook.com/. He gave me permission to reproduce it here. The jet stream weakens and pushes north approaching July. This usually…
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Growing America has an interesting series of short videos on farmers across the country and their stories, which often include the negative impacts of bad weather on their farms. Here is a recent video from a turfgrass farmer in Alabama talking about dealing with adverse weather and the economy and how it has impacted their…