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The weather this year has not been good to lemon growers, resulting in near-record high prices this summer. The weather in California has been very hot and dry, leading to reductions in production of lemons and Valencia oranges. The weather in Mexico and Chile, two other growing areas, has also impacted lemon supplies. People are…
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Time magazine has a really interesting long-form story this week about a new weather model that is being developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton NJ which could significantly improve weather forecasting on the time period of a week or more. Having better long-range predictions could help people who have weather-sensitive industries plan…
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The latest 7-day QPF map for the Southeast shows that most areas should get near-normal amounts of rainfall this week. Most of the rain will fall as hit-or-miss convective storms. The heaviest amounts will fall in coastal areas of the Carolinas and Virginia. The lightest area will be in northern Georgia and western South Carolina.…
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The latest Crop Production Report from the National Ag Statistics Service was released today and shows that many crop yields in the Southeast are expected to be significantly larger than last year, especially peaches, which suffered from lack of chill hours and a late frost last year. In some cases, the yields are likely to…
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A friend of mine sent this video clip from an old television show called “Bell Telephone’s Science Hour” made in 1958. It was directed by Frank Capra, the famous movie director. This clip was from an episode called “The Unchained Goddess” which was about the weather. Amazingly, I remember this program being shown at a…
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Most of the readers of this blog probably do not use GIS in their daily work, but if you do, here is a unique opportunity to try out a new GIS portal for climate data from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. Here is information on how to access the GIS files from Natalie Humphlett…
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If you’ve been following news about the record-setting California wildfires this summer, you may have heard that wildfires in California are increasing due to more droughts due to climate change. However, when you look at the data, the statistics are a bit more nuanced. Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has crunched the numbers,…