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Fortune magazine posted an interesting article late in June on the complicated relationship between farmers and their acceptance of climate change. Fortune points out that farmers are among the most likely to be affected by climate change, and yet are one of the least likely groups to accept the scientific evidence for it, even though they…
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The hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University released an updated seasonal hurricane forecast for the Atlantic basin this week, and it shows that that they have increased the number of named storms by one from their earlier forecast. They are now forecasting 15 named storms, the most since 2012. They are also predicting 6 hurricanes…
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CityLab from The Atlantic magazine had an interesting story this week about how the South manages wildfires and how California could benefit from our experience. The basic difference is that the South uses controlled burns to undergrowth using low-intensity flames along carefully planned control lines. In the West, historically all fire has been suppressed, leaving to…
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The latest monthly climate summary for Florida for June 2016 is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-june-2016. As I post this, their rainfall map is missing but here is what it will look like once they put it up:
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that fairly dry weather should be on tap for the next week across most of the Southeast. Most of the area will receive less than half an inch of rain, which is less than the one inch or more that plants need this time of year. The wettest…
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The US Climate Resilience Toolkit has a useful tool looking at vegetation health. It is called VegScape and it looks at the condition of vegetation across the US on a zoomable map derived from satellite data. You can read about it and find a link to the tool at https://toolkit.climate.gov/tool/vegscape%E2%80%94vegetation-condition-explorer. It is a little hard…
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Aug 11, 2016 | Workshop: AgWeather Solutions for Agriculture in North Central Florida | Citra, FL This event will cover: Climate Basics Climate Risk Tools in Agriculture AgWeather Solutions for Plant Diseases AgWeather Solutions for Vegetable Production Seasonal Climate Outlook When: Thursday, August 11, 2016 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Where: UF/IFAS Plant Science Research…
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