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  • Nature: Drought and extreme heat reducing cereal yields globally

    Pam Knox

    January 13, 2016

    A study recently published in Nature magazine shows that in the time period from 1964 to 2007, global crop yields were reduced by up to 10 percent from drought and extreme heat.  Floods and extreme cold did not appear to have a similar effect. A surprising result from the study was that crop yields in developed…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops, Drought
  • First named storm of the year in the Atlantic

    Pam Knox

    January 13, 2016

    Today the National Hurricane Center noted the development of the first named storm of the year, Subtropical Storm Alex, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.  This is the first time since 1978 that a named storm has formed in January, according to the Capital Weather Gang in a story here.  A subtropical storm has some characteristics…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • More severe weather watches in strong El Niño years in most of the Southeast

    Pam Knox

    January 13, 2016

    From the Louisiana State Climate Office: This interesting graphic from the Storm Prediction Center shows how El Niño and La Niña may influence local severe weather. The top map shows the average number of January watch days during the 10 strongest Dec-Jan El Niños as rated by the MEI, or Multivariate ENSO Index. The middle…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, El Nino and La Nina
  • Warm and wet December worries peach, pecan and blueberry farmers

    Pam Knox

    January 12, 2016

    Merritt Melancon of UGA wrote a recent press release which was posted in Growing Georgia describing some of the adverse impacts the warm and wet December has had on fruit and nut crops in Georgia.  You can read the article here. She points out that the record-setting warmth has also meant very low chill hours,…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops
  • Midwest floods impacting agriculture

    Pam Knox

    January 12, 2016

    AgWeb posted an article this week describing some of the large impacts that the Midwestern floods have had on agriculture, including the transportation of wheat and oil.  Many hog farmers have had to relocate their pigs to get them away from the flooded areas; thousands of others have been drowned.  You can read the article…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops, Livestock
  • Earliest calendar year hurricane in the Central Pacific

    Pam Knox

    January 12, 2016

    NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center has upgraded Tropical Storm Pali to a hurricane. It is the earliest recorded hurricane in a calendar year in the Central Pacific. The previous record was held by Hurricane Ekeka in January 1992. Hurricane Pali is centered about 650 miles (1045 km) south-southwest of Johnston Island and 1320 miles (2125…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tropical weather
  • How does 2015 rank for temperature and precipitation?

    Pam Knox

    January 12, 2016

    Reporters often ask me about how a month or a season ranked compared to other years of record.  I like to use the Southeastern Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool to help determine that.  You can use the link https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true and set your own start and end point to pick the time period of interest. For most…

    Posted in: Climate summaries, Sources of weather and climate data, Tools for climate and agriculture
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