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I love all summer fruit, but one of my favorites has to be the watermelon. Good thing I live in the South! It’s easy to find them here, and they taste great. But that was not always the case. Atlas Obscura has an interesting story about the history of the watermelon and how it was…
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The current weather pattern of frequent rain showers is expected to continue for the next week for most of the Southeast with the exception of the central Florida peninsula, which could see little rain. Not everywhere will get rain each day, but it will occur often enough to make drying hay a little difficult. If…
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In spite of a lot of worry on the part of peach farmers this year with a warm winter limiting chill hours and some late frosts occurring after a warm start to the season, Georgia peach producers are welcoming an abundance of peaches this year. According to a story by WSB television, the weather this…
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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…