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If you like maps as much as I do, you will be excited to see this amazing map showing all of the river basins in the US in color. The basin that stands out in the US as a whole is the Mississippi River basin in pink, which dominates much of the country. In the…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that many areas of the Southeast will get little rain this week. While October is typically the driest time of year, the lack of rain this year is leading to worsening drought. I can think of several areas that probably should be designated as worse than what the Drought…
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The Guardian posted a story this week describing the negative impacts of recent climate extremes on wine production around the world. Among the hardest hit areas is South America, which could particularly affect the production of malbec, a popular variety from Argentina and Chile. South Africa is set to report a 19% fall, but the…
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The Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab at UGA is currently involved with a number of ways to help partners in Haiti deal with the unprecedented impacts that some parts of that country felt after Hurricane Matthew swept across the western part of Hispaniola. In some areas nearly 100 percent of the crops and 50 percent…
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The Florida Climate Center has just published a report on Hurricane Matthew and its impacts on Florida. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/docs/Hurricane_Matthew_Florida_summary.pdf. It includes storm summary data and links to NWS reports from individual forecast offices.
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The Southeast Farm Press published an article today looking at early results of growing olive varieties in northern Florida. There are also some test groves in Georgia and a lot of interest by other farmers in adding this new crop into the mix of options. You can read the preliminary results here.
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NOAA’s latest set of climate predictions was released this morning and show that warmer and drier conditions than normal are likely to occur over large parts of the Southeast for the period November through April, particularly in south Alabama and Georgia and in Florida. These predictions are consistent with NOAA’s reissue of a La Niña…