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  • NOAA: Atlantic hurricane forecast for this season is lowered

    Pam Knox

    August 13, 2018

    Earlier this week NOAA lowered their seasonal forecast for the Atlantic basin based on the persistence of dust coming off of Africa, which is contributing to lower ocean temperatures in the main development area, and due to the growth of the impending El Niño, which tends to increase the strength of the subtropical jet. Both…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • Georgia Climate Project: Using natural resources to protect infrastructure

    Pam Knox

    August 12, 2018

    This week’s question from the Georgia Climate Project’s Roadmap focuses on how we can leverage natural systems to help protect Georgia’s coastline and important infrastructure.  For example, by rebuilding natural wetlands we may be able to protect against some of the likely increased flooding scientists expect us to experience in the future.  Maintaining the string…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Geoengineering may cause problems for farmers

    Pam Knox

    August 12, 2018

    Projections of future climate indicate that global temperatures are likely to get a lot warmer by 2100. If this occurs, we will need to determine ways to counteract the warming. Geoengineering is the process of making changes to the earth to keep the earth from warming as much as we expect. These techniques could include…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Eight more resources to learn more about the weather

    Pam Knox

    August 12, 2018

    Last week I shared a link to an online course about the weather from the University of Exeter. Today I would like to point you to a list of additional resources put together by Dennis Mercereau in Forbes.com. Even though this is not an exhaustive list of resources, the ones it does provide give a…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
  • Lemons nearly reach record high prices due to weather

    Pam Knox

    August 11, 2018

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Fruit
  • New weather model could provide significant improvement to long-range forecasts

    Pam Knox

    August 11, 2018

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Tropical weather
  • Moderate rain for most of the Southeast this week

    Pam Knox

    August 11, 2018

    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.…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
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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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