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Southernloggintimes.com posted an article today from the Georgia Forestry Commission that Georgia Tech has put out a new report about logging in Georgia which shows how valuable forestry is to the state. According to the report, “Employees working in forestry earned more in wages and salaries in 2014 than people in any other Georgia manufacturing industry….Georgia’s forest…
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If you’re interested in reading books about the weather, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center has put together a list of some excellent non-fiction books about past weather events at https://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/pubs/historicalAccounts.jsp. I’ve read quite a few of these, but there are still some I need to take a look at. If you know of another good one,…
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Grist.org published an article this week about Jill Pelto, an artist who is incorporating climate data into her watercolor paintings. It seems like a very unique way to communicate data using more than just numbers. You can read the article here.
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NASA’s Earth Observatory blog posted an interesting story yesterday about the impacts of South Africa’s current severe drought on maize farmers. Drought is often seen in this region when a strong El Niño occurs, so it was not unexpected, but is more severe than usual. Due to the dry conditions, farmers have not been able…
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Weather stations across Georgia recorded temperatures that were mainly one to two degrees below normal in January. Most stations also reported drier than normal conditions for the month, although Atlanta and Alma were exceptions to this pattern. Temperatures across the state were below normal in January. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 42.4 degrees…
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SERCH announced in their newsletter today (see earlier post) that their next installment on the climate vulnerabilities of loblobby pines is now available at https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/serch/climate-vulnerabilities-of-loblolly-pine-part-ii-precipitation/. The first part discussed the impacts of rising temperatures; this part describes the impacts of variable precipitation on the trees in the Southeast.
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The USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub published its latest newsletter today. The issue has a list of several upcoming webinars related to agriculture and climate as well as climate summaries for December and for 2015. You can read it by clicking here.