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The latest Drought Monitor released this morning shows an increase in abnormally dry conditions across the Southeast since last week. A large area of abnormally dry conditions was introduced into Florida, and two areas of moderate drought were introduced into Georgia this week as well as expanding in South Carolina. Considering that very little rain…
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If you’ve never heard the term ‘medicane’ then you are not alone. A rare tropical storm is forming in the Mediterranean Sea and is already causing big impacts on Greece, including torrential flooding. Very few of these storms, dubbed ‘medicanes” has ever been seen because the ocean temperatures and atmospheric dynamics there are not usually…
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Every once in a while I run across a story about an agricultural oddity that is delicious to read. In this case, almost literally. Gastro Obscura published a short article on a tree in Syracuse NY that contains grafts from 40 different varieties of stone fruit. You can read it and see some pictures here.
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I have never heard of pongamia, an oilseed tree from India and Australia. So I was interested to read this article from Biofuels Digest on how it might provide an alternative crop for farmers in Florida who have been crushed by citrus greening and Hurricane Irma’s destruction earlier this year. The article makes it sound…
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Here is a very cool video showing the atmospheric loading by dust, smoke, sea salt, and other aerosol tracers over the 2017 hurricane season. It’s amazing to watch the dance of different aerosol types and see the hurricanes develop and move over the Atlantic Ocean as the season progresses. The smoke coming off the western…
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press wrote an interesting story this week on a new interactive global map which is supposed to be so detailed that you can zoom down to individual farm fields. I’ve played around with it a little bit and it is pretty interesting to see. For some products you can…
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Do you believe that woolly bear caterpillars predict winter conditions? The State Climate Office of North Carolina published a look at the coming winter season from the standpoint of weather folklore in their latest blog post today. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=246&h=5666e5c1.