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In spite of the old and tired joke that meteorologists have one of the few jobs that allow you to be wrong all the time and still get paid, in reality most weather forecasters get the weather right a lot more often than they whiff. But people tend not to remember the correct forecasts…
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Do you wonder why your county is not showing up in drought on the Drought Monitor when your producers are clearly hurting? Do you know what a 100-year flood is and how to determine it? I am giving a 1-hour webinar on droughts and floods on Tuesday, February 18…
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Wendell Berry is one of my favorite authors. He is not only a writer and a poet, but also an activist and a farmer. He rarely grants interviews, so this recent one in Vox.com is a real pleasure to read. Among other things, he discusses the disconnect between urban and rural understandings of food production…
Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news -
Over the past few weeks I have seen a number of stories addressing impacts of changing climate on agriculture and other businesses that you might find interesting. They are listed in no particular order below…
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According to an article in Forbes.com this week, “The greatest cold weather event in the recorded history of the U.S. took place during the first half of February 1899. Sub-zero temperatures were observed in every state in the Contiguous U.S. – including Florida. The coldest temperature on record for many cities and states…”
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the recent pattern of wet conditions in northern parts of the region along with dry conditions in southern parts is likely to continue this week, although with rain amounts lower than in the past two weeks. The heaviest rain is likely to fall mid-week…
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Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage to parts of the Bahamas when it basically parked over the islands for several days in 2019. The amount of surface destruction it caused was unbelievable. But what researchers have recently found was that it also destroyed about 30 percent of the coral reefs…