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Winter is on the way across the US and will soon come to the Southeast too. Before the bad weather hits, be prepared for whatever might come your way. The National Weather Service has a great website with a lot of information on winter weather and how you can get ready for it at https://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/winter/. Now…
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NOAA put out their latest La Niña outlook earlier this week. As expected from last month, La Niña conditions are becoming more entrenched and the pattern is expected to last through winter and into spring. The sea surface temperatures and subsurface temperatures both indicate that the La Niña has become more firmly established. One of…
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It looks like a fairly dry week for most of the Southeast this week, with a bit of rain coming Sunday into Monday but not much else except right along the East Coast. Not too surprising for fall, which is normally the driest season.
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Here is a new report on the state of water in Georgia from the Georgia Water Coalition. According to their release, the report highlights the history, economics, water demand trends, forecasts, and regulatory nature of irrigated agriculture in Georgia and also takes a look at irrigation in neighboring states. You can read it at https://www.gawater.org/watering-georgia-report.
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Dry conditions in the Carolinas this past week have resulted in the expansion of moderate drought in central South and North Carolina. A small decrease in abnormally dry conditions was also seen in Virginia. Otherwise conditions remained generally stable in Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
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The latest estimates from the USDA regarding the orange harvest this year have dropped the expected yield by 7.4 percent, to 50 million boxes, from last month’s estimate. Producers generally considered last month’s estimates too high because all of the accumulated losses from Hurricane Irma have not yet been seen, much less quantified. Some delayed…
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How old can grapevines get and still produce a good crop? Atlas Obscura has a short but interesting story this week on a vine in England that has been producing sweet dessert grapes for over 250 years. When they were originally produced, only royalty could eat the fruit, but now it is available to the…