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The nor’easter which developed along the east coast today has really cranked up. Athensgaweather.com showed this great image of the circulation around the low pressure, which at the time I wrote this was just off the coast of Long Island. The image is from earth.nullschool.net, one of my favorite sites. Make sure to go there to…
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As I’ve been discussing recently, the next two nights are going to be critical for fruit farmers around the Southeast. Temperatures in the low to mid 20s could cause millions of dollars of damage to crops that are well ahead of normal in blooming this year due to the mild winter. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has…
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The Georgia Climate Project (GCP) is a three-year effort by academic institutions across the state (including Emory, Georgia Tech, and UGA) to improve understanding of climate impacts and solutions in Georgia. GCP is working on something called the Georgia Climate Research Roadmap. The roadmap is an effort to identify and rank “Georgia’s Top 40” climate research questions.…
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The Packer published a roundup of crop summaries for Florida vegetable and fruit production this year earlier this week. You can find it here. In the article they say “Following difficult, weather-related growing conditions that negatively impacted many commodities last spring, this year’s outlook has been optimistically deemed “as good as it can get.”” Nearly…
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The Weather Channel produced a video and article last week that described some of the toughest places in the United States to forecast the weather. It turns out that it depends on the season and can also vary from one year to the next. Included in the list are two places in the Southeast: the…
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Drovers Newsletter published a special report collecting information on the impacts of recent wildfires that have devastated parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. You can read several related reports on the damage to herds and pastures as well as relief efforts underway to help the affected ranchers by following the link here.
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With the cold weather we’ll be experiencing later this week, following weeks of above normal temperature, I thought this article on cold damage to alfalfa might be useful. Frost damage is most likely to occur if temperatures get to 24 F or below, which could happen in northern parts of the region on Wednesday and…