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So many places in the Southeast are extremely hot and dry that meteorologists on The Weather Channel are calling it the “Desert Southeast” these days, according to today’s WunderBlog here. Birmingham AL is on day 50 of no rain with no end to the record-setting streak in sight. Many other stations have had little to…
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Many introductory physics classes show this classic bridge collapse, due to a bridge that was built to be too flexible and which collapsed in high and gusty winds after oscillating wildly back and forth in the Tacoma Narrows in Washington State. You can read about the event and the science behind it at Wikipedia here…
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The Nature Conservancy has a new study about the value of planting trees in cities. The study looked at both the impacts on reducing temperature in urban areas but also reducing particulates through absorption by the trees. You can read a description of the work at The Atlantic CityLab at https://www.citylab.com/design/2016/10/the-big-green-payoff-from-bigger-urban-forests/505913/. You can read the…
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If you are a CoCoRaHS precipitation observer, thank you! Here is a message from the CoCoRaHS headquarters about your end of the water year summaries and how to get your Certificate of Appreciation. If you are not yet an observer, won’t you consider joining? I admit it’s a little frustrating to enter a “0” every…
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(Note: This is a long summary but there were many impacts from the drought and Hurricane Matthew this month and I wanted to get them all in.) October 2016 was much hotter than normal across the state. Some areas were more than six degrees above normal, the fifth month in a row of such high…
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Some folks plant food plots to bring in deer for hunting or watching. With this year’s drought, planting is behind schedule. But Mark Mauldin from the Panhandle Ag e-News say that there is no point in planting these plots until some rain occurs. Otherwise the seeds won’t germinate and the plots will not survive, wasting…
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While I talk more about peanuts, cotton, corn and soybeans in this blog, there are many other crops in the Southeast that are affected by weather and climate. The Southeast Farm Press published a story this week about the problems that Virginia tobacco growers have had with the weather conditions this year. The problems began…