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Dr. Bob Kemerait of UGA has an insightful column in the Southeast Farm Press on how weather and climate make predicting crop performance difficult. This year has been particularly bad with flooding rain in some areas and severe drought in others. As Bob points out, “the most important factor that the grower can do little…
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You may not remember Hurricane Alex, but it formed in mid-January this year, long before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. And now we have Hurricane Otto, which passed from the Atlantic to the Eastern Pacific Ocean yesterday, setting a record for the latest landfall in any calendar year in…
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One of the more unusual stories this week was the report that respiratory distress linked to thunderstorms in Melbourne, Australia, caused thousands of asthma attacks and four deaths earlier this week. You can read more about it in the Capital Weather Gang here. The culprit was grass pollen which was concentrated ahead of the storm…
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In place of Black Friday I am offering a White Friday instead. Here is a fantastic picture of a rare fogbow from Scotland which is making the rounds of my Facebook feed today. You can read about what makes a fogbow or white rainbow at Yahoo here. If that’s not enough of the white stuff,…
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I’ve got squash, parsnips, carrots and onions roasting in my oven in preparation for the big day on Thursday. I hope all of you have a wonderful holiday filled with food, family and good cheer. May we all have enough!
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Here’s a very interesting story from Atlas Obscura about Jacob and Vilhelm Bjerknes, a Norwegian father and son who worked together to understand how the atmosphere moves. Before they provided the basic organizing principles we now know describe how fronts and pressure centers work together to move around masses of air from different parts of…
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Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Drought Monitor is out a day early. It shows expansion of all levels of drought across the Southeast and the introduction of abnormally dry conditions along the Georgia coast and in northern Florida, where Matthew, Julia and Hermine dropped rain earlier this year. Considering that most of those areas…
Posted in: Drought