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Early forecasts for the 2016 Atlantic tropical season are starting to come out, and so far all of them predict that the tropical season this year will be more active than usual. El Niño acted as a brake last year and the hurricane season was relatively quiet, but with El Niño going away and most…
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Southeast Farm Press had an interesting article in their newsletter this week from Todd David of the University of Kentucky Extension comparing farming in the South to farming in the Midwest. In the article he says that “The lower yield potential and greater yield risk reduces land value appreciation in the South and limits the…
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This month marks the anniversary of the worst flood in recorded history on the Mississippi River in spring of 1927. It is estimated that more than 630,000 people were displaced by the flood water, which covered 27,000 square miles to a depth of up to 30 feet. The Earth Science Picture of the Day post…
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Every child I know likes to draw raindrops with a bulbous bottom and a point on the top. This may be in part due to the path of water droplets on glass, which do tend to have that shape due to surface tension and friction between the water and the glass surface. But what shape…
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AgWeb published an article in late March describing the changes that have occurred in growing season across the US since 1980, including graphs of both spring and fall frost changes and length of growing season. You can read it here. They attribute the changes to increasing temperatures over that time period. The article also relates the…
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A webinar on management of beef cattle selection and management for adaptation to drought and on the future of US cattle operations is being offered through Purdue University on April 20 at 1:00 pm Central Time (2 pm EDT). You can get details about the webinar and register at https://climateagwater.wordpress.com/webinar-4/.
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With the current weather pattern locked in place, high pressure will dominate most of our region for the next week. This means little chance of precipitation falling, and most areas will get less than a quarter of an inch for the week. Most of that is likely to fall late in the week as the…
Posted in: Climate outlooks