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With Major Hurricane Beryl now steaming west in the Atlantic Ocean towards the Caribbean, the Atlantic hurricane season is now underway with a vengeance. While it does not look like Beryl or the storm immediately behind her will affect us in the Southeast, a storm in the not-too-distant future may be more of a problem.…
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So how can you pass up a story with a headline like this? I couldn’t. This story from Feedstuffs describes the process of breeding cattle that tolerate heat better than current varieties by sweating a lot to keep cool. This is one of several adaptation methods cattle producers can use to respond to the warming…
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As of 5 pm on Saturday, TS Beryl was upgraded to a hurricane by the National Hurricane Center. Beryl’s vertical structure is almost perfectly stacked with no wind shear and it is over an area with very warm ocean temperatures, so it is expected to become a major hurricane in the next couple of days…
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Here is some very timely information for farmers on what they need to do to prepare for a hurricane hit to their farms in advance of any threatening weather. It was published in the Florida Land Steward Newsletter this past Friday by Christopher Demers at the University of Florida. ————————————————————————– GET YOUR FARM RECORDS COMPLETED…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that everywhere in the Southeast is expected to get some rain in the next week, but the heaviest rain will be in Florida and along the coastal plains of the Gulf and East Coasts. Inland in the Piedmont, amounts will be lighter, with no rain expected there after mid-week.…
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The tropics have really picked up in activity in the past few days. The big system to watch right now is in the eastern Atlantic, moving WNW towards the Caribbean. This area of interest has a 90% chance of becoming a named storm in the next week. The model tracks show a very wide spread…
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Some crops can take a lot of heat, but others like corn don’t like it when it gets too warm. This story from Wallaces Farmer describes how corn responds to very dry and hot conditions and how it impacts the final yield of the corn crop. I know that some dryland corn in the Southeast…