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The latest National Drought Monitor was issued this morning and shows that abnormally dry conditions expanded from 20 to 34 percent of the region, mostly in the western Carolinas and Virginia. Dry conditions decreased in Alabama, but moderate drought reappeared in south-central Georgia, which has missed most of the rain this past month. Updated drought…
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Four years of drought in California and the prospect of even longer droughts in the future has Californians seeking for insight into how to deal with these longer droughts. Australia has survived their “Big Dry”, which lasted from the 1990s through 2012, and are a natural source of information on how to cope with long-term…
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While temperatures here in the Southeast have been fairly seasonal recently, Alaska has been baking with temperatures far above normal. NASA released an image showing the variation in temperatures from average for the period May 17-24. It shows the wide band of above normal temperatures in Canada and eastern Alaska stretching all the way up…
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As part of National Hurricane Preparedness Week activities, NOAA has released its seasonal forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season today. The forecast shows that they are expecting fewer tropical storms and hurricanes this year than usual. primarily due to the effect of El Nino. In El Nino years, development of storms is often curtailed due…
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A heat wave in southeast India has caused the deaths of over 1,100 people over the last week. India recorded its highest maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius — 117 degrees Fahrenheit — at Angul in the state of Odisha on Monday, according to B.P. Yadav, director of the India Meteorological Department. The extreme high…
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AgWeb posted an interesting story from Bloomberg Businessweek on the history of agriculture in California which explains why they grow so much alfalfa there, even though it is a very water-intensive crop. Milk is the #1 agricultural commodity produced in California, edging out almonds and grapes. Much of it is consumed in-state, but quite a…
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Tengri News reported on the mass death of over 90,000 rare Saiga antelope in Kazakhstan. In the past ten days, the antelope have died at an alarming rate, leading to the death of almost 40 percent of the known population of these migratory antelope. Scientists are still trying to determine the cause of so many…