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The USDA released a map this week which shows how much cropland includes the use of cover crops. Cover crops help reduce erosion, improve soil fertility and reduce weeds, among other things. The Southeast has a higher percentage of cropland covered with cover crops than anywhere except Maryland, which encourages the use of cover crops…
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A bill that would have provided funds to improve weather forecasting on the 2 week to 2 year range, provide money to build new advanced models, and to improve weather and climate services to individual states was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate on December 2 but died in the House of Representatives because…
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The latest issue of the Southeast River Forecast Center’s Water Resources Outlook was put up on YouTube today. In it the NWS hydrologists talk about the current state of surface water conditions around the Southeast and look ahead to the next few weeks. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2b0DWx9AZI&feature=youtu.be.
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This morning’s Drought Monitor shows a reduction in drought in the panhandle of Florida as well as southern Georgia. Dry conditions were removed from the Georgia coast as well due to plenty of rain. However, extreme drought expanded in northwest South Carolina due to lack of rain there. The latest Drought Outlook, also released today,…
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David Schmidt of our partner blog at Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate has a new blog post out. In it he discusses heat stress on livestock and why old ways of doing things may not be the best choice when new management techniques and technology are available. You can read it at https://animalagclimatechange.org/if-it-aint-broke/.
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A new NOAA-sponsored report shows that unprecedented warming air temperature in 2016 over the Arctic contributed to a record-breaking delay in the fall sea ice freeze-up, leading to extensive melting of Greenland ice sheet and land-based snow cover. The Arctic Report Card, released this week at the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco,…
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According to Nova Next on PBS, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have analyzed soil moisture and snowpack data in the months leading up to the drought and have discovered that they could have been used to make a much earlier drought prediction. If the model can be applied to similar droughts…