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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…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their summary of the 2015 climate in their state. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=171&h=5666e5c1.
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If you are looking for ways to explain El Niño to producers or your parents or children, you might be interested in two recent resources on El Niño that I found online. The World Meteorological Organization has a simple 3-minute video tutorial which explains what El Niño is and how it affects global climate at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v92Iqihct98.…
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Another “top ten” list I ran across this week describes the top ten weather and climate events that occurred in 2015, from Jeff Masters at Weather Underground here. It includes the South Carolina flooding as well as the Christmas week crazy weather and is topped off by the year as the warmest on record for…
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