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Once the cold front moving through the Southeast this weekend moves past, we should see very light amounts of rainfall for the next seven days. The highest amounts are likely to be in North Carolina where drought expanded last week. Other areas, including most of Florida, is likely to see little to no rain. This,…
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NOAA’s report on global climate came out this morning and shows that, like NASA’s analysis released yesterday, February was the second warmest on record, after 2016’s El Niño-affected record. The winter record for December 2016 through February 2017 was also the second-highest on record. You can read more at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201702 as well as this story by Jeff…
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If you like adventure stories or stories about natural disasters, you will be interested in reading this interactive story about the massive fires that hit Fort McMurray in central Canada from the Canadian Broadcasting Company. It gives a timeline of the fire and the decisions made by the firefighters as the fire roared toward the…
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All of the rain in California this winter has brought the deserts alive. Flowers are blooming at an incredible rate, including miles of California poppy. You can view beautiful pictures of the blooms from Yahoo here. Nothing like flowers in a dry land!
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NASA reported this week that their calculated global temperature for February 2017 shows it as the second warmest on record, slightly below the record-setting year of 2016 (which had a strong El Niñ0). NOAA should be releasing their numbers in a few days. You can read about it at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/news/20170315/.
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The hard freeze the last two nights has had significant consequences for Georgia’s fruit crops. The Packer has done a good job of pulling together an overview of some of the consequences of the bitter temperatures on strawberries, peaches and blueberries. Fortunately, the Vidalia onion crop does not appear to be affected. You can read…
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This is the coolest graph I have seen today. Maybe this week. From retired UGA ag extension agent Rad Yager, who got this from a blueberry producer near Homerville GA. It shows temperature traces from two ambient air sensors plus one that was exposed to irrigation water used for frost protection last night. You can…