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While temperature and related growing degree days help control how fast corn and other crops develop, it’s less well known that solar radiation also has an effect. If it’s warm but cloudy, the corn growth will be slower than if skies are sunny. This is one reason that we are planning to put a solar…
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You’ve probably heard about the massive forest fires that are spreading through parts of California, and you might have even seen some of the images of smoke and flames associated with the fires. But while the fires are affecting the forests in the area, they are also causing problems for agricultural producers. The Southeast Farm…
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Here is the latest selection of spectacular imagery of weather, this one the top photos from The Guardian‘s 2019 contest. You can view all the finalists here. Note that the photo that is accompanying this blog post is not one of this year’s finalists so I won’t spoil the surprise.
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It’s getting to be that time of year again. We are approaching the average date of first frost for the Athens and Atlanta areas. Parts of northern GA have already experienced a bit of frost earlier this fall, and colder weather may bring freezing air into more of the state within the next week or…
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Occasionally I get asked if and how climate change is affecting extreme weather in the Southeast. This has come up more frequently in the past few years with all of the hurricanes which have impacted agriculture in the past few years, including Matthew, Florence, Irma, and Michael. Here is a lengthy but useful description of…
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With just a couple of days left in the month, October 2019 looks like it will be the warmest on record for a number of stations in the Florida peninsula. Many other parts of the Southeast can expect to see one of their top five warmest, according to the statistics from the Southeast Regional Climate…
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A new study recently published in Nature Communications shows that taller trees in a forest died at more than twice the rate of smaller trees at the end of extreme drought. The research used airborne lidar to sample the health of forests with such detail that they could drill down to individual trees and see…