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The latest weather forecast models are now showing the advance of cooler, fall-like air into the Southeast in the next few days following the slow passage of a cold front through the region starting on Monday night. By late Wednesday and into Thursday and Friday we could see temperatures below normal for the first time…
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The University of Florida/IFAS has announced the development of a new irrigation scheduling model for sesame production in the Southeast. According to an article in the Panhandle Ag E-News, “sesame is known to be a relatively low input crop, able to reach good yields with 60 lbs/ac of nitrogen fertilizer. It is also, and more…
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Since it is the weekend in the fall, the thought of football is never far away in our house. I thought a story this week by Fox News Tech on the advantage football teams from drier climates have was intriguing. A study by Kansas State researchers shows that when visiting teams from moister areas play…
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This November NOAA will launch their most advanced weather satellite yet, the first GOES-R series. If the launch is successful, this satellite will allow us unparalleled opportunities to improve our knowledge of weather and also to improve our ability to forecast the weather, since the majority of data that goes into weather forecasting models is…
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The latest QPF forecast for the Southeast shows the lowest rainfall amounts for the next week are over the driest area in the region, where extreme drought expanded in this week’s Drought Monitor. The forecast indicates that little relief is on the way in those area and that drought may continue to get worse, especially…
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In recent years I’ve seen a number of Facebook posts showing photos of massive dust storms moving through the Southwestern US, many of them near Phoenix. A study published this summer by NOAA meteorologists posits that the 2008 recession led to the abandonment of many farms, allowing them to serve as a source of the…
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Recently Athens received two new WeatherSTEM weather stations, one on the main UGA campus atop the Geography building and one at the State Botanical Gardens. Other locations around the Southeast have also received similar stations, and more are scheduled to go in. One of the products that WeatherSTEM puts out is a set of basic…
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