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  • Growing Georgia: A Farmer’s View of Hurricane Michael

    Pam Knox

    October 31, 2018

    Growing Georgia posted a new story about the impacts of Hurricane Michael from the standpoint of several farmers in southwest Georgia. The impacts are going to be felt in many ways for years to come. You can read the story at https://georgia.growingamerica.com/features/2018/10/hurricane-michaels-destruction-land-crops-and-property.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • Southwest Georgia farmers pick themselves up and trudge ahead after Hurricane Michael

    Pam Knox

    October 30, 2018

    Sharon Dowdy of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has an interesting story this week about how farmers and extension agents in southwest Georgia are coping after the devastating effect of Hurricane Michael earlier this month. Lots of good stories about what happened to farmers around the area and how they are getting back…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops, Extension agent outreach
  • National Cotton Council asks for help in identifying losses due to Michael

    Pam Knox

    October 30, 2018

    The Southeast Farm Press reported this week that the National Cotton Council is asking for farmers’ help in identifying losses due to the winds and rain of Hurricane Michael earlier this month. They have a brief form to fill out which will help them tabulate the losses from the storm. You can read more and…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Michael caused $158 million damage to Florida crops

    Pam Knox

    October 29, 2018

    Previously I’ve reported on agricultural losses due to Hurricane Michael in Georgia and Alabama. Today Morning Ag Clips reported that Florida’s loss to crops due to the storm was a total of $158 million. Of that, $51 million was from the almost complete loss of cotton in the state. Greenhouses, nurseries and floriculture lost $39…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • NCEI: County-level climate data is now available

    Pam Knox

    October 29, 2018

    Here is a note from Karin Gleason of the National Centers for Environmental Information about a new dataset that provides temperature, precipitation and drought data on a county basis. This has been requested by a number of groups over the years, so if you have been looking for it, you can check it out. Here…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • New methods for estimating precipitation

    Pam Knox

    October 29, 2018

    In the last few weeks I have run across two new methods for estimating precipitation amounts in places where no rain gauge is present (which is most of the US). These methods incorporate new techniques for filling in the gaps between surface rain gauges using radar data. NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information posted a…

    Posted in: Climate science
  • Pattern switch in late month will not affect above-normal temps in October

    Pam Knox

    October 28, 2018

    There has been quite a change in the atmospheric pattern across the US from the beginning of October to now. If you look at the last 7 days of temperatures, you can see much above normal temperatures out west with below normal temperatures in the east (except for Florida). But if you look at the…

    Posted in: Climate summaries
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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