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In my series on sources of climate data I mentioned the regional climate centers as a great source of information both for specific regions and for national perspectives. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has a couple of new products that you might be interested in. One feature that has many national aspects is their new…
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After the tremendous flooding earlier this week, it probably does not come as a surprise to you that the Drought Monitor today has removed all categories of drought from most of the Carolinas and Virginia. It is rare for them to change by more than one category in a week, but the large area of…
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NASA released a photo from the Terra satellite showing the evidence of the South Carolina flooding as seen from space. Here it is, as annotated by the NWS Wilmington NC office.
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Impacts of the recent rain in South Carolina and surrounding areas on agriculture are continuing to come in. The Southeast Farm Press ran an article this morning describing the “one-two” punch of a summer drought (which reduced yields by 50%) and the floods, which dropped the expected yields for many crops down to 30% of last year’s…
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Former USDA Chairman Dan Glickman has written an opinion piece in Agri-Pulse discussing the future of farming as the climate changes. It was originally pointed out to me by the Southeast Regional Climate Hub in an article here. You can read the original op-ed from Agri-Pulse at https://www.agri-pulse.com/Climate-change-and-agriculture-challenges-and-opportunities-09222015.asp. Glickman spends some time discussing adaptations that farmers…
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The USGS has a nice tool for calculating the total amount of rain that fell in a storm. You can find it at their Water School site at https://water.usgs.gov/edu/activity-howmuchrain.html. Based on this tool, it has been estimated that the amount of rain that fell in the South Carolina flood was 11 trillion gallons of water, according…
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One of the first stories to come out from South Carolina about the impacts of the flooding on agriculture was published yesterday in the Post and Courier with the title above. The flooding hit at a critical time for farmers, near the end of the growing season when many crops are close to harvest if…