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The Flagpole weekly newspaper in Athens GA had an interesting story last week about how the swings in weather in recent weeks (the mid-March frost preceded by and followed by above-normal temperatures) has affected small farmers in northeast Georgia. Some farmers that provide vegetables for local farmers markets noted that the warm weather early in…
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I will be celebrating Easter with my family tomorrow so no blog post until Monday. Hope you have a wonderful weekend with family and friends!
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According to a February article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Georgia is the third fastest solar-power producer in the US. Georgia solar jobs grew by 23% over 2015. In addition to the solar panels you might put on your house, however, Yale Environment 360 says that large-scale solar power production is growing across the country in https://e360.yale.edu/features/northern-lights-utility-scale-solar-power-spreading-across-the-us,…
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During the Dust Bowl era, there were a number of storms that made history for the size and length of the storm and the amount of soil they moved. Chief among those is the Black Sunday dust storm of 1935, which was, by some accounts, 1000 miles long. You can read about this storm in…
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While some rain is forecast for the Southeast in the next week, amounts will generally be light, particularly in the Florida peninsula where drought has been expanding in recent weeks. In Georgia and Alabama the heaviest amounts are expected in the northern counties of those states, which will help reduce drought conditions there.
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NOAA’s latest update on the forecast for El Niño indicates that there are still mixed signals about the likelihood of an El Niño developing later this year. One observation in favor of the development is the current strong warming right off the coast of Peru and Ecuador, which is causing problems with tremendous flooding in…
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Roger Gates, Extension ANR agent in Whitfield County, wrote me to ask for help in finding soil moisture data because he was struggling to fill out the soil moisture survey for the weekly Crop Progress and Condition Survey. I asked him if it would be OK to share his question and my answer because a…