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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…
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Southerly Magazine has an interesting story about the longleaf pine’s history in the Southeast. It was nearly eliminated by logging and development and then replaced by other species. But it has a long history of surviving in the region for thousands of year before humans lived here…
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The global climate summary for January 2020 was released by NOAA this morning. It shows that this past January was the warmest ever for a January since global records began in 1880. This in spite of the fact that we are not in an El Nino, which usually brings us the warmest global temperatures…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that the area of abnormally dry conditions has decreased significantly since last week’s map. All abnormally dry (D0) conditions are gone from the Carolinas and almost all of it is gone from Alabama. The small area of moderate drought (D1) in southern Georgia…
Posted in: Drought