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If you love to look at the stars in the night sky, you have no doubt been frustrated that you can’t always see very many where you live, especially if you live in an urban area. This new interactive map helps show you where the darkest places in the world can be found. In the…
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The Supreme Court of the United States issued its last statement of the season on the Georgia-Florida “water wars” case, which has been ongoing between the two states for a number of years. In the ruling, which you can find at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/142%20orig_h3ci.pdf, the five majority justices sent the case back to the Special Master who had…
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One of the tragedies of lightning storms is that sometimes when lightning hits a tree, injury or death can occur to anything below that tree, including cattle that have taken shelter from the storm. A recent story about one such event prompted this article from Drovers Newsletter about the odd comments received on social media…
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The Packer posted a story this week about problems that watermelon producers are having with production this year due to the heavy rains they have experienced. Wet fields have hampered planting of seedlings and rains every 2-3 days have prevented application of needed chemicals to the young plants. You can read more here.
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The latest summary of climate conditions for Spring 2018 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportSpring2018.pdf.
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Are you ready for a vacation? I am! While some meteorologists plan their vacations around storm-chasing in the Great Plains, I prefer to pick locations with good scenery and friends to share it with. When I was a kid, my family drove across the northern US to visit friends in Alberta and see the Northern…
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The National Farmers Union posted an interesting story last week about a new set of tools that can help farmers plan for changes in climate. The set of tools developed by Oregon State University include “AgBiz Logic, a tool to help farmers anticipate environmental impacts in the business decision making processes, down to the farm level.…