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  • Georgia’s salt marsh reduced by 35 percent due to drought, rising temperatures

    Pam Knox

    August 2, 2016

    A new study by UGA scientists shows that over the last three decades, the area of Georgia’s coast covered by spartina, or marsh grass, has decreased by 35% based on satellite measurements.  They attribute the decline to frequent droughts over the period, combined with increasing temperatures and increased snail activity in the latter half of…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Coastal
  • New UGA weather network website now available

    Pam Knox

    August 2, 2016

    I am happy to announce the birth of a new website for the University of Georgia automated weather station network.  You can still find the main portal at https://www.georgiaweather.net/, although that may change in the future.  The website has a fresh new look and more readily available information.  I encourage you to visit them and see…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • 2015 State of the Climate report released, confirms 2015 warmest year on record

    Pam Knox

    August 2, 2016

    NOAA released their annual “State of the Climate” report today for 2015, and it confirms that 2015 was the warmest year ever recorded on Earth.  This year’s warmth was helped by the strong El Niño which also warmed the Pacific Ocean.  You can read about it in NOAA’s Climate.gov newsletter here.  You can see a…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Events
  • Tropical Storm Earl forms in western Caribbean; not expected to affect Southeast

    Pam Knox

    August 2, 2016

    The National Hurricane Center has just announced that they will begin issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Earl, currently located in the western Caribbean Sea and moving west towards Mexico.  It is not expected to affect the Southeast or the rest of the US.  You can get more information at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov or at https://www.spaghettimodels.com.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • Growing corn like it’s 2065

    Pam Knox

    August 1, 2016

    To understand how common crops respond to changes in climate, some researchers at the University of Minnesota have built a sophisticated climate-controlled laboratory for studying how crops like corn respond to changes in temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, and rainfall.  I was amazed at  how carefully they had to put together the lab, for example in…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Crops
  • Florida climate summary for July 2016 now available

    Pam Knox

    August 1, 2016

    You can read the climate summary for July from the Florida State Climatologist at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-july-2016.

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • North Carolina climate summary for July 2016 now available

    Pam Knox

    August 1, 2016

    You can read the latest summary from the Office of the State Climatologist in North Carolina at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=201&h=5666e5c1.

    Posted in: Climate summaries
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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