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The WunderBlog has posted a map showing the coldest temperatures each location in the United States felt this past winter, which includes December 2016 through February 2017. It’s probably important to point out that this year, the coldest temperatures actually occurred in March in some locations, when the frost last week occurred. But that’s a…
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The US Climate Resiliency Toolkit online has a good web page describing some of the steps that farmers currently use to assess their weather and climate vulnerability and how they take measures to protect against risks to their operations. It includes a five-step process to become more resilient in the face of unknown changes to…
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In a report this week in the Washington Post, “According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the sheet of Arctic sea ice, which expands and contracts in an annual cycle, probably reached its maximum size this year on March 7, when it spanned 14.42 million square kilometers, or 5.57 million square miles, atop the Arctic ocean. That’s an…
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If you’ve been watching the livestock news or reading this blog, you know how devastating recent wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas have been to livestock there. Here is a news release from Texas A&M about the critical fire weather conditions that are currently present in western Texas. Critical fire weather conditions present over Western…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a large expansion of abnormally dry conditions in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina due to the relatively dry and warm conditions we have experienced since last week. Keep in mind that the cut-off for rainfall values was this past Tuesday, before the round of storms moved…
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The South Carolina State Climate Office, in conjunction with other cooperators, has released an online story map of the disastrous flooding in October 2015 that has won several awards for its report. You might like to take a look at it. It contains information about the setup for the flood, which included the impacts of…
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The Weather Channel showed a video story yesterday on the new types of clouds that have been officially recognized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). I’ve talked about some of them before but, hey, you can never get tired of looking at pictures of clouds. The video story can be found here. And don’t forget…