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While Hurricane Matthew is now one for the record books for most people (other than those in eastern North Carolina still dealing with the devastating floods in the region associated with the storm), there have been a lot of interesting stories about the storm. Many of these are on scientific aspects of the storm such…
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I was going through mail today and found this interesting commentary on interpreting climate records in Physics Today. The article discusses how different writers can take the same climate information (in this case, the very warm March 2012 temperature record from Durham NC) and write very different headlines based on how they interpret the data. All…
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Modern Farmer had an interesting story this week on the history of how kudzu was introduced into the US and how it affected Southern agriculture. You might enjoy getting a look at the history of how this plant came to be so ubiquitous around the Southeast and how it has affected agriculture here in the…
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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…