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The latest global climate summary from NOAA was released today for October 2019. It shows that the month was the second warmest since global records began in 1880, after October 2015. The January through October period was also the second warmest on record after 2016. Note that the western US was a huge anomaly, one…
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The latest report on Georgia’s pecan harvest shows that this year’s harvest is better than last year’s, when Hurricane Michael dropped many nuts and destroyed huge numbers of pecan trees. However, this year’s production is still only about half of what it was prior to Hurricane Michael, and it is likely to be many years…
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A friend passed along this story about a beautiful covering of rime ice along Skyline Drive west of Washington DC. Rime ice is formed when the air is cool and moist and when the temperature drops to below freezing super-cooled water droplets condense right on contact with the cold trees. The rime ice may not…
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If you are a producer worried about freezing temperatures and their impacts on fruits and vegetables, you might want to look for information about an upcoming workshop that IFAS is holding on November 19 in Lake County. Information on topics covered plus registration information is available at https://fruitgrowersnews.com/news/growers-prepare-for-winter-weather-with-uf-ifas-extension/.
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The BBC produced a short timeline which describes some of the important events in expanding our knowledge of how humans are changing climate, going back to 1712 and the invention of the first steam engine that used coal and 1824, the first scientific mention of the earth’s natural greenhouse effect. If you think that scientists’…
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This week looks mostly dry for the majority of the Southeast. No rain at all is expected for large parts of the region for the first five days, with a chance of showers on Thursday and Friday as the next weather system moves into the region from the northwest. While this lull is going on,…
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Halfway through November, we can see that so far this month a lot of the region has been drier than normal. Temperatures have varied across the region quite a bit, with northwestern parts much colder than average while southern Florida continues to bask in above normal weather. The temperature pattern could persist for the rest…
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