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The latest climate outlooks from the Climate Prediction Center show that for February and the February-March period, most of the Southeast are likely to continue to experience lingering effects from the dying La Niña, including above normal temperatures and below normal rainfall. Because of this, drought conditions are expected to remain in northern Georgia and…
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CBS News has a report and video describing changes that are expected to occur in sea level rise across the US in the next few decades under global warming. The mildest case is for a foot of sea level rise, while more severe scenarios show as much as 8 feet of rise in some locations.…
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If you look carefully today you will note that I have made some changes to the logos on the right hand side of the blog page. My USDA projects have now ended and are no longer supporting my work, so I have replaced them with the logo for the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental…
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You may have heard arguments from time to time that in the 1960s scientists were talking about the coming Ice Age and cooling and not global warming. While it is true that one magazine article during that period noted that we are headed into the next Ice Age in the next 10,000 years or so,…
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Weather Underground reported today that the death toll from this week’s tornado outbreak (19 so far) was the highest for January since 1969 and has already surpassed the total number of deaths for the entire year of 2016 across the US. Since peak tornado season is still a couple of months away, that toll is…
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The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project, better known as PINEMAP, began in 2012 when Tim Martin, professor of tree physiology at the University of Florida, along with representatives from 11 southeastern land-grant universities and a host of other research cooperatives, proposed a five-year research project to determine how changes to climate could…
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The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences announced the development of a new app-based tool to help tell farmers when severe weather might impact their crops. According to an article in the Southeast Farm Press, the tool will inform farmers about the potential for extreme weather such as severe heat or dry spells…