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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that while dry conditions have remained stable in Florida and Georgia, they have expanded in North Carolina and Virginia, going from 19% coverage over the Southeast to almost 35% coverage. The cause has been the dome of high pressure parked over the Southeast, which prevents rain from…
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Huffington Post published an article online this week describing the ways that weather can affect your health You can find it here. How does the weather affect the way you feel? Do you notice changes in your pets’ or livestock’s behaviors? I’ve got friends who definitely feel the effects of weather changes on their arthritis…
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While we don’t have as much beef production in the Southeast as there is in other regions of the country, there may still be some folks interested in this upcoming conference on beef production and methane. Here is the press release describing it. IANR NEWS RELEASE: * Beef Methane Conference is May 11-12 in Lincoln IANR…
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Last week in many news feeds there was a fascinating story about how the North Pole is moving due to changes in the distribution of weight around the world from melting ice. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab scientists showed that the axis of rotation around which the Earth spins is moving towards the east (I do…
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According to a recent article in USA Today, the hotspot for lightning in the United States is located in Orangetree, Florida, a few miles southeast of Fort Myers on the southwest coast of the peninsula. This is based on a new satellite study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Globally, the most…
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NOAA reported this week that the latest temperature statistics on global average temperature for 2016 so far put this year far above measurements from previous years. In their global summary they also noted that March was the 11th consecutive month with a record high temperature for the Earth, reaching a value of 2.2 degrees F…
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“Restorative grazing” is the idea that by appropriate use of grazing on dry grasslands, you can build up organic matter and improve the land to increase the health of the plants there, even during droughts. In this article from the Food and Environment Reporting Network, a 7-year study of a desertified landscape in Zimbabwe looked…