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This week, May 2-6, is National Air Quality Week. EPA has a web site which describes some of the events which are going on around the country at https://www3.epa.gov/airnow/airaware/. You can also find information on this topic from NOAA at https://www.airquality.noaa.gov/.
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AgWeb reported today that the State Senate in South Carolina passed a bill giving aid to farmers that were devastated by the October floods at the end of last growing season. According to the post, “Agriculture officials say October’s torrential rains wiped out $330 million worth of crops at harvest time. Farmers lost an additional…
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The April 2016 climate summary is now available for North Carolina. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=188&h=5666e5c1.
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Preliminary statistics from the High Plains Regional Climate Center indicate that the majority of the Southeast was above normal in temperature, although areas in the eastern Carolinas and a band of southern Georgia were cooler than normal. Precipitation was variable across the region, with wet conditions stretching from central and southern Alabama east into parts…
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Clint Thompson of UGA posted a story on this year’s water melon crop which was picked up by Online Athens. According to his story, seedlings were ahead of normal development this spring in spite of rainy weather, and many field were planted early, but some growth was further delayed due to cool, rainy weather later…
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Smithsonian had an interesting article this week on a long-term source of proxy climate data that was collected by Japanese priests monitoring the ice conditions on Lake Suwa. As the lake froze each year, the priests recorded the time of development and the orientation of a ridge of ice that built up as the lake…
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I stopped at Providence Canyon State Park near Lumpkin GA on my way home from a school field day in Cuthbert GA on Friday. The park is located south of Columbus on the west-central edge of the state. It is now billed as one of Georgia’s seven natural wonders, with layers of pink and white…
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