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The High Plains Regional Climate Center provides ACIS maps of climate information for the US. I use these maps when I make my own climate summaries. But until now, these have only been produced as static maps. Now, HPRCC has announced that their maps are also being made available as shapefiles which you can use…
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I’ve never been to Gulf Coast except for a brief trip to Destin FL, and another to St. George Island, so I have never experienced what visiting that part of the country was like before Hurricane Michael. Now, residents are struggling to determine what comes next. In Mexico Beach, where the storm did its worst,…
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The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, GA has posted a summary of Hurricane Michael’s impacts on Georgia, including maps of wind speed, rainfall totals, photos, and maps of tornado paths associated with the storm. You can view it here.
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I saw a very interesting article in Nature magazine this week about how dandelion seeds float through the air. Apparently the science of how they sustain flight after someone blows them away was not well understood, and when researchers figured it out, it showed a new method of flight that has not been previously seen…
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Now that we are experiencing freezing temperatures at night, it is a good time for livestock producers to remember the impacts of that cold weather on forages. Here is a good article from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on how freezes can cause hazards in some plants. You can read it here courtesy of Drovers Newsletter.
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While Hurricane Michael has been in the news most recently, agricultural producers in southeastern North Carolina are still recovering from the impacts of Hurricane Florence’s heavy rainfall, which caused a lot of damage in that part of the Southeast. Farm Bureau’s Pork Business published a story recently describing some of the things that pork producers…
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Now that fall has come, you will certainly notice the migration of Canadian geese, monarch butterflies, and other winged creatures headed south to warmer climates. Did you know that these migration patterns are linked to the weather? Strong winds from the north help geese put on miles quickly, for example. You can learn more at…
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