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Here are a list of a few online and in-person courses that I have seen listed in recent weeks. The Warnell School of Forestry at UGA is offering an in-person course on “Managing Forest Health, Wildlife and Productivity” on October 4-5 in Athens, GA. Course content will center on landscape-scale forest health issues related to…
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Exactly one year from today, a large part of the United States will see a solar eclipse of the sun as the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. The path of totality will pass directly over northeast Georgia and most of South Carolina. There was a lot of publicity about the eclipse today,…
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With the drought in northern Alabama and Georgia hitting some crops hard and putting stress on others as well as on livestock, farmers are looking at better ways to cope with the lack of rainfall that seems to hit the Southeast every few years. The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week about the…
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press‘ blog interviewed me this week on the status of La Niña and what we might expect to see this fall and winter if La Niña develops as expected. Currently NOAA gives it a 60 percent chance of happening in the next few months. You can read the article here.
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The University of Georgia recently received two automated weather stations from the WeatherSTEM network, a nationwide network of weather observers focusing on improving education on atmospheric and other sciences like oceanography and astronomy. You can see the output from our stations by going to https://athensclarke.weatherstem.com/ or visit WeatherSTEM for more information at https://www.weatherstem.com/. WeatherSTEM provides educational…
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While the number of tornadoes and tornado days has been decreasing in the historical “Tornado Alley” in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska in recent years, in so-called “Dixie Alley” in the Southeast tornado occurrences have been increasing, according to a new study published in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. Researcher compared tornadoes in…
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The northwest part of Georgia is not the only part of the country that is dealing with severe impacts of drought this year. Extreme drought has also appeared in upstate New York, where dairy is one of the main industries. Dairy farmers there, like the livestock producers in northern Georgia and Alabama, are being forced…