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The Packer is running a story today on this year’s Vidalia onion harvest and the impacts of the recent rainy weather on the crop. In the story they describe conflicting reports on the state of the onion crop due to the weather. The USDA is reporting that recent rains “curtailed harvest” and contributed to some crop…
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I’ve seen some interesting stories about atmospheric optical effects lately. Here are a couple you might be interested in reading. NOVA on Public Broadcasting had a good story about mirages and seeing the city of Chicago appear upside down over a cold Lake Michigan (link). EarthSky also had an interesting article about why the sky…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub (SERCH) was established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to deliver science-based information, tools, and technology on climate variability and change to farmers, ranchers, and forest land managers in the Southeast. It recently celebrated its first anniversary. You can read more about SERCH and sign up for its newsletter at https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/2015/05/06/serch-marks-first-anniversary/. Below…
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The National Hurricane Center announced at 11 pm EDT that Subtropical Storm Ana has formed south of Myrtle Beach SC and is moving north very slowly. A subtropical storm is a storm that has some characteristics of a mid-latitude system and some characteristics of a tropical, warm core system. You can read more about the…
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Meteorologists have been watching the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina for the possible development of Ana, the first named storm of the 2015 tropical season. While the hurricane hunters have not found the closed low they look for when making an official declaration, the National Hurricane Center puts the chance…
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EarthSky published a news article this week on the recent new record in monthly average carbon dioxide level recently reached. For the first time since modern records were kept, the global monthly average carbon dioxide level was over 400 parts per million. Compared to both modern measurements and derived values from ice core data, this…
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While you can find thousands of pictures of lightning on the web, until now no one has ever been able to take a picture of thunder. This week, however, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Antonio, Texas released a news story describing their first successful attempts to make images of the thunder itself. By…