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I’ve seen several stories this week about conditions of some crops across the Southeast and how they relate to the weather. The Packer posted a story about the early start to the North Carolina sweet potato crop harvest. The story notes that yields are expected to be the best they’ve experienced in years due to…
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NOAA released their updated Atlantic hurricane season forecast for 2016 yesterday. NOAA calls for a higher likelihood of a near-normal or above-normal season, and decreases the chance of a below-normal season to only 15 percent, from the initial outlook issued in May. You can read it at https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/atlantic-hurricane-season-still-expected-to-be-strongest-since-2012.
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The Southern Region Extension Forestry folks have posted reminders of two upcoming forestry workshops on their Facebook page today. The Appalachian Wood Energy Innovations conference will be held August 24-26 in Asheville NC. Here’s the description from their event webpage: “Participants attending this event will hear from industry, federal agency and university experts on woody…
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NASA’s Earth Observatory noted recently that this summer has been plagued by oppressive heat at several global locations. Temperatures in Siberia have been so warm that a frozen reindeer carcass infected with anthrax defrosted from the permafrost that had encased it and caused an outbreak that killed one child and over 2300 reindeer. Other areas…
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I was pleased to meet with the ANR extension agents in Southeast Georgia today in Brunswick and talk to them about sources of weather and climate information. I mentioned fact sheets on Southeast climate but did not provide the web link, so here it is: https://agroclimate.org/fact-sheets-climate.php. If you are interested in producing similar fact sheets for…
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The latest Drought Monitor shows that scattered showers reduced dry conditions in some areas of the Southeast, while others were unchanged. Extreme drought expanded into a small part of South Carolina. You can get the numbers at https://www.droughtmonitor/unl.edu.
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I am headed to Brunswick for an August 11 meeting with Extension agents from around southeast Georgia, and stopped tonight to take this picture of sunset over the coastal marshes near Darien, GA. You can see the shadows of thunderstorm towers (which are located to the west of where I was taking the picture) on…
Posted in: Interesting weather images