Yesterday the South Carolina Drought Response Committee official declared nine counties covering the Edisto basin in incipient drought, the lowest of four levels. This is the first drought declaration in the state since April 2013. You can read more about this at TheState.com.
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If you are interested in reading about agriculture and climate in the Pacific Northwest, you might like to visit the website for that region. You can find it at https://agclimate.net/. Lots of interesting stories on the impact of climate on agriculture in that productive part of the country!
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If you’ve been paying attention to the current tropical season, you know that the west coast has been plagued by heavy rains from the remnants of tropical storms. First Hurricane Norbert, and now Hurricane Odile have sent plumes of moisture into the desert Southwest, leading to unprecedented flooding and the…
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The Climate News Network produced an article this week describing how the recent unprecedented drought in Brazil has highlighted the importance of the Amazon rainforest in the regional water budget. The rainforest is being chopped down in many areas, in many cases to grow soybeans and other agricultural crops as…
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David Schmidt from the Animal Agriculture and Climate Change working group posted this column today about the SRECA meeting we had early in September in Athens and what it taught him about peer-to-peer learning. When I am not thinking about animals and climate, I think about my online…
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In the monthly webinar for the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin today, we heard from El Nino expert Klaus Wolter on his prediction for the coming winter. Based on his study of analog years similar to this one and other indicators, Dr. Wolter believes that an El Nino may already be underway…
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Climate.gov has a blog discussing topics related to El Nino, an oscillation which affects temperature and precipitation in parts of the Southeast, particularly in winter months when El Nino is usually strongest. One of the research questions that comes up in studies of changing climate is whether El Nino will…
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