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  • Historic high tides swamp the East Coast

    Pam Knox

    October 27, 2015

    Along the East Coast today many roads were underwater from a combination of extremely high tides, onshore flow, remains of the flooding in South Carolina, and rising sea levels.  A number of roads were forced to close, including the access to Tybee Island along the Georgia coast near Savannah. This is the third time in…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Coastal, Interesting weather images
  • Video: El Niño explained

    Pam Knox

    October 27, 2015

    If you are wondering how to explain El Niño to your kids (or your grandmother), you might enjoy this video from PBS Digital Studios on El Niño and chaos in the atmosphere at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPibjwo21g.

    Posted in: Climate science
  • Atacama Desert in bloom

    Pam Knox

    October 27, 2015

    The Atacama Desert in Chile, normally one of the driest places on Earth, was recently photographed covered by millions of pink mallows.  Heavy rains in March provided some areas with up to seven years’ worth of rain in 12 hours.  You can see pictures and read a description here.  While the story does not say…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, El Nino and La Nina, Interesting weather images
  • About first dates (of snow)

    Pam Knox

    October 26, 2015

    Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environment Information posted another informative (and funny) blog on first snow dates in NOAA’s Climate.gov blog, Beyond the Data. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/first-dates. In the Southeast, it is difficult to do good scientific studies of snowfall because the data are not very complete.  Snow does not fall…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, El Nino and La Nina
  • Here comes the remains of Patricia

    Pam Knox

    October 26, 2015

    The satellite and streamline maps today show a newly developed coastal low pressure center (which spun up from the remnant circulation of former Major Hurricane Patricia) as it moves east across the Southeast today.   You can see the dynamic version of the streamflow analysis at https://earth.nullschool.net/.  The swirl of winds ahead of the storm’s center…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Interesting weather images
  • Sea level rise impacts marshes, causes more nuisance flooding

    Pam Knox

    October 26, 2015

    Measurements of sea level have shown that sea level in most areas of the world is increasing.  This is due to the impacts of warming ocean water, which expands as it gets warmer, plus the additional water added to the oceans by the melting of glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.  The impacts of…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Coastal, Uncategorized
  • Impacts of cold mornings on peanuts

    Pam Knox

    October 26, 2015

    Rome Ethredge of Seminole Crop E News provided some good advice for peanut farmers looking to dig peanuts when temperatures are near 32 °F.  If it is too close to freezing you can get significant damage to peanuts resting on the ground if they have too much moisture. You can read his blog post at https://seminolecropnews.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/cold-weather-and-peanuts/.

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Crops, Extension agent outreach
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