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The Southeast Farm Press published a story today describing the rush to harvest cotton, peanuts and sweet potatoes before the wind and rain from Tropical Storm Nate descend on Alabama later this weekend. Farmers who have defoliated their cotton are especially worried about getting the cotton in, although if they have not defoliated and are…
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North Carolina State Extension has a newly published online glossary of common terms used in discussing climate. This particular glossary is aimmed at foresters but many of the terms could be used by anyone discussing climate variability and change and how to respond to it. You can find it at https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/understanding-climate-planning-and-response-terms-within-the-forestry-context.
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Tropical Storm Nate is now moving over Honduras towards the northwest, but is expected to move back over water soon. Next it crosses the tip of the Yucutan Peninsula, and then it moves over the warm Gulf of Mexico headed towards New Orleans. The current forecast cone of the storm has moved west from yesterday’s…
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Interested in learning what the record high and low temperatures are for your location? This database from NOAA’s Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) can help. The site provides ways to access the data as well as some graphs which show extremes by decade and other useful information. Climate.gov provides a description of how to…
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Here is a trailer for a new documentary that will be coming out soon on farming in America and the challenges that farmers will face in the future. We all want to eat and we depend on farmers to provide the food we need, even though they are not always appreciated. I hope that I…
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The latest Drought Monitor released this morning shows that abnormally dry conditions more than doubled across the region in the last week. Most areas received no rain at all in recent days, while temperatures have been at or above normal. Abnormally dry conditions were introduced into parts of Alabama as well as expanding in both…
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A new tropical depression has formed off the coast of Nicaragua and is expected to move north and strengthen over the next few days. Once it reaches tropical storm status, it will be called Nate. Models of the storm’s path indicate a high probability that it will move over parts of the Southeast by this…
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