The climate summary for North Carolina for December 2014 has now been posted. You can find it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=112&h=5666e5c1.
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Reports from weather observers are still coming in for the end of 2014, but there are some preliminary results for 2014. The temperatures across the Southeast were generally near to below normal for the year, but fairly mild compared to the region of very cold temperatures in the Great Lakes…
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Happy New Year to all of you! I had a good but busy holiday season, and am looking forward to getting the blog going again. We’ve redone the spam setting on comments so you should be able to add your remarks again. Hope you all had a restful holiday season…
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I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off to spend time with family and friends this holiday season, and I hope that you get the chance to do the same. I will be suspending entries to this blog until early January, when I will return to kick off the New Year with…
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EarthSky posted a neat article this week describing why most evergreen trees have a pyramid shape. The narrow shape on top helps reduce snow loads in the snowy climates they are often found in. The shape also helps reduce wind resistance, which is important for these trees with shallow root…
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Many of you will be traveling sometime during the next week to visit friends or relatives over Christmas week. Looks like there will be a good bit of storminess this week over the eastern half of the country as well as a big storm hitting the Pacific Northwest. Pay special…
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AgWeb published a report today on a talk given to the Texas Plant Protection Association by Carlos Rubinstein, chairman of the Texas Water Development Board. The talk covered the effects of recent droughts on crop and livestock production in the state. Rubinstein reviewed the impacts of the 2009-2011 drought on farm incomes and discussed…
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