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According to the Southeast Regional Climate Hub, the PINEMAP DSS (decision support system) is now available online. According to SERCH, it is “a map-based collection of climate and forest productivity web tools designed to provide region-wide information on likely future climate risks, opportunities, and impacts on southern pines at the watershed scale.” The goal is…
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The heavy rains in the central part of the US have caused a lot of flooding along the Mississippi River and many other rivers in the region. This is the worst flooding since 2011 and has been compared to the 1993 devastating floods. This has caused major problems for crop and livestock farmers. AgWeb published…
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The National Hurricane Center is watching a swirl of clouds off the coast of North Carolina for signs of development. It is currently an extratropical storm, but because it is over warm water it could develop some tropical characteristics and might gain enough strength to gain a name. If it did, it would be called…
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I viewed an interesting video today about the challenges of managing cattle in the warm climate of the tropics. The video is on YouTube here. It is in Spanish but has subtitles. It discusses heat stress and changes they have seen in climate over time and what they expect in the future and also talks…
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NOAA reported this morning that the record warmth in December helped make 2016 the second warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, with an average temperature of 54.4 F, compared to the record-setting year of 2012, which was 55.3 F. Every state in the Southeast set a new statewide record for December temperature,…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub has released a new blog post by John Hastings, NCSU, on the impacts of changing climate on loblolly pine in the Southeast. This is the first of a two-part report on climate impacts on the most commercially important tree species in the region. You can read it at https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/serch/climate-vulnerabilities-of-loblolly-pine-part-i-temperature/.
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The NWS office in Tampa Bay, Florida, put out an interesting discussion on the potential for frost in central Florida over the next few weeks on Facebook today. The page is shown below. If those in central Florida are discussing the possibility of frost, areas that are farther north, including Georgia and Alabama, should also…