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  • How soil moisture sensors can help your irrigation scheduling

    Pam Knox

    May 28, 2020

    In spite of all the rain parts of the Southeast have had this year, there are areas that are quite dry and where producers are having to irrigate. But irrigating where it is not needed wastes water and energy to pump, so you want to make sure you are watering appropriately. Here are a couple…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Climatology

    Pam Knox

    May 28, 2020

    Here’s an interesting chart which shows how billion-dollar weather disasters change by month across the US (you can also break it down by regions and states). You probably will not be surprised to see that winter storm damage is highest in winter, freeze events in spring, and drought in summer. But the chart is still…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate summaries, Uncategorized
  • ‘Sundarbans is finished’: Super cyclone Amphan leaves a trail of misery in Bengal

    Pam Knox

    May 27, 2020

    While folks in the Southeast watch the end of TS Bertha and look ahead to the impending Atlantic tropical season, tropical cyclones have already been causing misery in other parts of the world. Last Wednesday Super Cyclone Amphan (a category 5 storm) moved north from the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the coasts…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • Tropical Storm Bertha forms as it comes onshore near Charleston

    Pam Knox

    May 27, 2020

    In a surprise to many meteorologists, Tropical Storm Bertha formed just off the coast of South Carolina as it was coming onshore. Overnight last night the National Hurricane Center said that it had only a 30 percent chance of development, but by 7:30 Wednesday morning it was bumped up to 70 percent, and by 8:30…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • Is La Nina on the way?

    Pam Knox

    May 26, 2020

    In today’s webinar (recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWnEtfS6gVk&feature=youtu.be) on climate conditions in the ACF river basin in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, discussed some recent changes in the temperature profile of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Over the last month, the ocean temperature distribution has started to look much more like a La…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, El Nino and La Nina
  • Another source of evapotranspiration data

    Pam Knox

    May 26, 2020

    I received a request yesterday for reference evapotranspiration for a location in Alabama. While there are several mesonets that collect weather data in Alabama, none of them was at the location that the request was for. In my search I found that the North Carolina Climate Office weather data map site contained quite a bit…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • Forbes: Will a Tropical System Delay Historic SpaceX Astronaut Launch This Week?

    Pam Knox

    May 25, 2020

    It rained here in Georgia today. Not that unusual except that the rain came in from the southeast, which is not what we usually expect. The culprit is a tropical system, not organized enough to be named but carrying plenty of moisture with it, that has been drenching the Miami area today. (You can see…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
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