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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week on delays in planting watermelons due to wet soils in south Georgia. Some areas are almost three weeks behind due to the excessive rainfall in February and early March. If the producers have to wait too long to plant, the melons may not be ready…
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Farmers are taking advantage of drier and warmer soils in southern Georgia to get their corn crops planted, in spite of issues with the COVID-19 virus. Now that soils are well above the 55 degree temperature, germination of corn plants can occur quickly and young plants can emerge in seven to 12 days. You can…
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Following the devastating tornado disaster in Nashville earlier in March, Popular Science posted this article on changes in the severe weather season in the Southeast. While the total number of tornadoes appears to be fairly constant over time, the number of outbreaks with several tornadoes on a single day has increased. These tend to the…
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If you love to watch time-lapse satellite imagery, you will enjoy watching this 16-minute video put together from imagery from the very high-resolution satellite Himawari over the Pacific Ocean. Watch hurricanes, wave clouds and even a solar eclipse in this magnificent film. You can check it out at https://dceff.org/film/year-along-geostationary-orbit/ . You can also see other…
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I am going to be giving a webinar describing the climate of 2019 across the Southeast, a look at what is happening now, and a look ahead at what we might be able to expect for the coming growing season. You are welcome to join us by Zoom on Tuesday, March 24 at 11 am…
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While many of us in the Southeast are struggling with too much water, farmers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico are dealing with one of the worst droughts in recent years. They are in their third year of drought, and it’s the worst one they have experienced going back to 1986. Groundwater levels are already…
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For the past three decades, Alabama, Florida and Georgia have been battling over control of water resources in what has become known as the “tri-state water wars.” I have written about this topic in past blog posts. In recent years, Georgia has been working hard to improve its tracking of water usage, since in past…
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