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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a significant reduction in drought across the Southeast due to the significant rains that many places have experienced. I returned today from a trip to Seattle for a conference to find 3.43 inches of rain in my CoCoRaHS gauge from last Friday to today. Rains like this…
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Do you like brussel sprouts? I am not a big fan, but if you like these tender green morsels, you will be disappointed to read this article by UGA’s Clint Thompson in Growing Georgia. The article explains that Georgia’s hot climate makes it hard to grow the cold-tolerant crop due to the length of the…
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The NWS Southeast River Forecast Center has released their latest outlook for water conditions in the Southeast for the coming months. It contains information about the 2016 rainfall, the current drought and the status of La Niña as well as an outlook for spring flooding. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4DnfTo2hqk&feature=youtu.be.
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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,…