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Do you listen to Chicken Little? Is the sky really about to fall? In the last few days I’ve seen a lot of posts on Facebook and Twitter that discuss the possibility of impending winter weather, snow, ice, and Arctic blasts for later in January. Some of them are from reputable meteorologists; many more are…
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The latest climate summary for Florida for December 2015 is now available at their website. You can visit it by clicking here.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their climate summary for December 2015 at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=170&h=5666e5c1. They also have an discussion on the outlook for the rest of winter which covers the Southeast, so you may want to read it even if you live outside of North Carolina.
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The latest CoCoRaHS blog has a summary of the crazy December 2015 weather across the US that you might find interesting. I’ll be posting the individual climate summaries for Southeastern states later this week as they come in. Welcome to a new month and a new year! https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-december-to-remember.html
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A blizzard that hit parts of Texas late in 2015 has caused significant losses to the dairy industry, including the loss of 40,000 dairy cattle, according to an article in AgWeb on December 31. In addition to the deaths of many cattle in the frigid and stormy conditions, hundreds of truckloads of milk had to be…
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A recent study of Australian wheat and sheep farmers after years of increasing drought and dust storms shows that the farmers are suffering from depression, according to a recent story in Modern Farmer. “The biggest problem seems to be the uncertainty. Farmers don’t know whether their crops will survive or be hit by a sudden…
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I admit that I am a sucker for “best” lists around New Year’s. Having said that, I think you’ll also enjoy this slide set of the 50 best science and technology images of 2015 from Popular Science magazine. There are several of weather and agriculture included in the set. Happy New Year! https://www.popsci.com/best-science-and-tech-images-of-2015?image=0 PS If…
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