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  • Jan 2016 likely to be in top ten wettest for Florida

    Pam Knox

    January 31, 2016

    Even though the final totals for January 2016 are not yet in, it’s clear that January is likely to rank in the top ten wettest for Florida since records began in 1895.  The ranking map below from the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool shows the number of stations in the state that are ranked…

    Posted in: Climate summaries, Uncategorized
  • Warming temperatures could help spread of Zika and other diseases

    Pam Knox

    January 31, 2016

    The trend towards warmer temperatures in many areas of the world is a worrisome sign to entomologists and diseases specialists, because the range of mosquito-borne diseases is closely linked to temperature, according to an article in Time.com yesterday. “The link between climate change and mosquito-borne illness centers around how rising temperatures may expand the area…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
  • Converting Brazil’s grasslands to grow soy for China: Effects of crop practice and weather on soil health

    Pam Knox

    January 31, 2016

    Medium.com had a long but interesting article on the Cerrado in Brazil and how it is being converted to cropland to export soy to China.  When I think of Brazil I think of tropical rainforests, but it actually has another celebrated biome, the Cerrado, a grassland located in central Brazil.  With the current demand for…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Great new tornado resource

    Pam Knox

    January 30, 2016

    The Storm Prediction Center has a new web resource for those who want to look at past tornado events.  You can find it at https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/outbreaks/.  This is a map-based tool that allows you to look at individual past tornado outbreaks and see the ingredients that went into them.  I used this to find the tornado outbreak…

    Posted in: Sources of weather and climate data
  • How to prepare your greenhouse or high tunnel for winter storms

    Pam Knox

    January 30, 2016

    Vegetable Growers’ News had a useful article this week on how to prepare your greenhouse or high tunnel for high winds or snow loading.  You might find it useful, especially for the winds we may see later this week due to severe weather.  You can find it at https://vegetablegrowersnews.com/news/how-to-prepare-your-greenhouse-high-tunnel-for-winter-storms/.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news
  • Rain this week could end abnormally dry conditions in SE Georgia

    Pam Knox

    January 30, 2016

    This coming week rain is expected over the Southeast, with the lowest amounts in Florida and the highest amounts stretching from the eastern Gulf of Mexico up the East Coast.  This track will bring significant rain to southeastern Georgia, where abnormally dry conditions have lingered over the past few months as they have missed a…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks, Drought
  • Severe weather could be coming to parts of the Southeast

    Pam Knox

    January 29, 2016

    The National Weather Service has issued a Day 5 Outlook (Tuesday to Wednesday next week) for severe weather which indicates a moderate chance of severe weather.  The severe weather includes the chance for strong winds, hail, and tornadoes.  Localized heavy rain is also possible. The center of the most likely area is in Alabama and…

    Posted in: Climate outlooks
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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