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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while most areas of the Southeast had no changes in their drought conditions, there was an expansion of the extreme drought that is currently plaguing central Florida. Another area of extreme drought in southeast Georgia expanded east to include coastal areas, including a small strip of…
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about the adverse effects of the dry conditions in parts of Florida on vegetable production there. The warm winter allowed whiteflies and other pests to overwinter and they are now causing a tremendous challenge for tomato farmers. You can read the story at https://vscnews.com/southwest-florida-struggles-whiteflies-drought/.
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Here is a lengthy (67 pages!) web site which provides a thorough background on the science of climate, from Andrew Revkin. He describes it as “a primer based on decades of reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, IPCC and other peer-reviewed lit.” You can view the web site at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3680541-Climate101.html. You might…
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If you like time lapse cloud pictures like I do, and would like to live vicariously by visiting the Grand Canyon on video (I haven’t been there yet but hope to someday), you will love this 3-minute video of a rare cloud inversion, where clouds fill the bowl of the canyon. You can read about…
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NOAA released their latest monthly summary of climate for the US in April 2017 yesterday. It shows that for the US as a whole, it was the second wettest and the 11th warmest April since records began in 1895. It was the second warmest year to date and the 5th wettest. You can read more…
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Here are a couple of different tools I’ve run across this week which look at the effects of rising sea levels on coastal areas of the US. The Tides and Currents site at https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html shows how local sea level rise differs from global sea level rise. The total sea level rise is a combination of rising…
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about the development of tea as a new specialty crop in the Southeast. Of course there have been some tea plantations in the South in the past, but a Florida researcher is looking into adding tea to the bouquet of specialty crops growing in…