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Bryant Wynes of The Packer has a good short summary of agricultural impacts of the March freeze and the warm winter on Georgia agriculture, including some of the expected impacts on yield. You can read it here.
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Here’s something you don’t see every day! A cloud layer passing over downtown Chicago was so low that it was affected by the John Hancock building. What’s going on? You can read an explanation of how clouds and surface features interact from Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA in his blog post at Forbes.com here.
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“Will he or won’t he?” A question I’ve been getting a lot lately is whether or not we are headed into our next El Niño. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, if we have either an El Niño or the opposite La Niña, statistically we have some idea of what climate conditions to expect during…
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Today’s Drought Monitor shows a mixed bag of drought trends across the region. While dry conditions were reduced or removed from southern Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia and the area of extreme drought in northeast Georgia shrunk still further due to recent rains, two areas of extreme drought appeared in southern Georgia and the area of…
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While scientific studies on the relationship between weather and human health vary, from anecdotal evidence I have heard from friends and colleagues, I think there is a pretty clear relationship for at least some people between how the weather is changing from day to day and how they feel. This article from The Path magazine…
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According to The Packer, “U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has signed a declaration of disaster for areas in Georgia and Florida for crops affected by a mid-March freeze. The declaration enables growers in affected counties to apply for low-interest loans to help them recover from crop losses.” Many areas of Georgia lost 75% or more…
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A new Michigan State University study looks at the impacts of living on a mobile home on tornado safety. Of all of the tornado-related deaths that have occurred so far this year, 63% were in mobile homes. And the South is prime territory for mobile home residence, due to a combination of zoning and poverty…