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Have you ever seen an insect or plant that you could not identify and wondered what it was? This new (to me, at least) app, allows you to snap a picture and get an immediate suggestion for what the picture is showing. What’s more, it locates the photo by GPS to allow researchers to track…
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Have the past two winters of warm weather in Florida provided a look ahead to what conditions might look like in the future? An AP report published in AgWeb today discuss how the warm temperatures impacted strawberry production in Florida and what it might mean for future production of the fruit in a warmer climate.…
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Here’s a list of the record hottest temperature in each of the 50 states according to KOCO TV. The link is here. However, they managed to forget Alabama. That record is 112 F, set on September 6, 1925 in Centreville, a very hot year in many parts of the Southeast. Note that the record high…
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Here’s an interesting article about the weather balloons which are launched twice a day by National Weather Service folk to give us a view of the vertical structure of the atmosphere. This knowledge is crucial in understanding the likelihood of severe weather, the type of wintry precipitation, and the pattern of high and low pressure…
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While floods and droughts are causing problems for farmers in the US, producers in other parts of the world are having their own difficulties dealing with the weather. Southern Europe is in the middle of a severe drought which is reducing the production of cereal grains and causing heat stress problems for cattle, according to…
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While the Atlantic has been relatively inactive as far as tropical storms go this year (although they are still ahead of normal in named storms), the Pacific Ocean has been hopping. Weather Underground posted a story describing the eight storms that occurred at the same time across the Northern Pacific Ocean at https://www.wunderground.com/news/eight-tropical-cyclones-pacific-july2017. You can…