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  • The largest tornado outbreaks website updated with latest event

    Pam Knox

    January 29, 2017

    Each year US Tornadoes keeps a web list of all of the large tornado outbreaks that have occurred.  They use a baseline of 20 tornadoes in one event to define what an outbreak is.  So far 2017 has had two outbreaks, including the one on January 2 and the one January 21-23.  You can come…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Severe, Sources of weather and climate data
  • “How A Woman You Never Heard Of Helped Enable Modern Weather Prediction”

    Pam Knox

    January 29, 2017

    Earlier in January I was fortunate to see “Hidden Figures”, a movie about brilliant African-American women mathematicians who helped NASA successfully launch astronauts into space.  If you haven’t seen it yet, you should, and take your kids with you.  This week Dr. Marshall Shepherd discusses some of the hidden women in atmospheric sciences in his…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, History, Uncategorized
  • NOAA: What is the difference between weather and climate?

    Pam Knox

    January 28, 2017

    NOAA’s climate blog has a new entry which provides an excellent description of the difference between short-term weather and long-term climate.  In addition to the analogies in this blog, I also like the comparison between a baseball player’s batting average (climate) and his actual performance in one trip to the plate.  You can read the…

    Posted in: Climate science
  • How much do climate scientists get paid?

    Pam Knox

    January 28, 2017

    You may have heard folks claim that climate scientists are just pushing a climate change agenda because they are making a lot of money doing it.  How do you respond?  I thought this description by Katherine Hayhoe did a good job of explaining how money for climate grants is split between universities and researchers. “Climate…

    Posted in: Climate science
  • Rain in driest areas this week

    Pam Knox

    January 28, 2017

    The 7-day QPF shows that most of the Southeast will be dry this week, but the Florida peninsula and areas along the northern borders of Georgia and Alabama will see some rain early and late in the week, with a dry period across the entire region Tuesday through Thursday.  This should help reduce dry conditions…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
  • Old movie on livestock production in Florida

    Pam Knox

    January 27, 2017

    The Panhandle Ag e-News had a story today about their new Friday Feature, which highlights old agricultural videos.  The feature for today shows a short video (about 10 minutes long) describing cattle ranching in Florida from the Florida Beef Council.  It’s a bit old-fashioned but still an interesting look at ranching with Brahma cattle.  You can…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Livestock
  • How do trees capture climate information?

    Pam Knox

    January 27, 2017

    NASA has a new online post which describes how trees are able to capture climate information in their annual growth rings.  This information, called paleodata or proxy data, allows us to look back farther in time than using just instrumental records.  You can use not only living trees but also trees from the past that…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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