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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week by Brad Haire on a long-lived alfalfa plot growing in south Georgia at the Sunbelt Ag Expo Darrell Williams Research Farm. Contrary to popular belief, alfalfa can not only grow but thrive in the region, especially as new varieties adapted to local conditions come to market.…
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NASA reported that during the time period from 2002 to 2016, the continent of Antarctica lost 125 gigatons of ice as measured by the GRACE satellite instrument. The sea level rise from this ice loss amounts to 0.35 millimeters per year according to their report. While this might not seem like much, ice loss is…
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EarthSky posted a short article this week about the top five questions meteorologists get asked about tornadoes. While many parts of the US experience their peak tornado season in May or June, in the Southeast we can and do get tornadoes any month of the year, so it is especially important to know what to…
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As a meteorologist, I hear frequent jokes about having a job where you can be wrong most of the time and still get paid. It might surprise you to know that weather forecasts have improved dramatically in recent years due to a combination of more observations (mostly from satellites), larger and improved computer models, and…
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While I don’t often talk about politics in this blog, after this week I think it is important to address climate change and its impacts on agriculture and why so many scientists are so worried about what is going to happen to our climate in the future. I know from experience at many meetings that…
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A very wet week is expected for the Florida peninsula this week, with most areas expected to see several inches of rain. That is likely to put a dent in the drought that has developed in that region over recent weeks. The rest of the Southeast is also expected to get good rainfall in the…
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The May 2017 climate summary from North Carolina is available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=235&h=5666e5c1. The climate summary for Florida is at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=510. Here is the text summary for the whole Southeast Region: (Information provided by the Southeast Regional Climate Center) Temperatures were near average across much of the Southeast region (including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)…
Posted in: Climate summaries