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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story earlier this week describing problems that Georgia peach farmers are having with the unusually low number of chill hours that have been observed this year due to the warm winter and spring. For the peaches that survived the mid-March frost, the lack of chill hours has led…
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This isn’t really about the weather, but is very cool nonetheless. EarthSky has a fascinating video of flocking starlings moving together in movements of incredible grace that appear hypnotic. The movements are called a “murmuration.” The birds seem to anticipate each others’ movements, leading to waves of movement through the flock. But how do they…
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It’s no surprise that we are seeing a lot of activity in the severe weather department this week. Historically, this has been a very active time of year across the US, and it’s the main peak of severe weather activity in the Southeast, although we have a secondary peak in fall and tornadoes can and…
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Yesterday’s severe weather outbreak netted a bunch of tornadoes (21 as yet unconfirmed) and many reports of straight-line wind damage. Today people will be cleaning up from those messes. But they should also be preparing for Wednesday’s two or three rounds of what could be even more widespread severe weather, with a higher likelihood of…
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The Packer noted today that Vidalia onion farmers are optimistic about this year’s harvest. The mild winter created good conditions for the onions, and they largely missed the impacts of the mid-month frost. The result is expected to be a generous harvest of onions, many on the large size even with an earlier than usual…
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The latest monthly climate summary for March 2017 for North Carolina is now available. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=232&h=5666e5c1. You can read the Florida climate summary for March 2017 at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=508.
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The record of the blossoming date of cherry trees in Kyoto, Japan, is one of the longest phenological records climatologists have. Historical information on the blossom date goes back all the way to 812 AD, although nearly continuous records are not available until 1406 AD. The dates have recently been compiled into a single record,…