{"id":1869,"date":"2015-01-26T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2015-01-26T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:12:29","slug":"chill-hours-average-and-actual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/chill-hours-average-and-actual\/","title":{"rendered":"Chill hours: average and actual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winston Eason of Clayton County wrote me this morning asking about finding maps for average chill hours for a class he is teaching on backyard fruit trees and orchards. \u00a0So far I have not been successful in finding a Georgia-specific map on average chill hours, but I did run across several other sources of information that you might find useful.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Source: Midwestern Climate Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"chilling-hours<\/a><\/p>\n

The second map above is from\u00a0https:\/\/plant-shed.com\/planting-fruit-trees-in-north-texas\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To get current chill hours, there are a variety of sources you can use.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Weather Network<\/em> has a tabulation of stations with current accumulations since October 1 at\u00a0https:\/\/weather.uga.edu\/aemn\/cgi-bin\/AEMN.pl?site=AAAA&report=ci<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The MidwesternRegional Climate Center<\/em> has a current map similar to the average map posted above at\u00a0https:\/\/mrcc.isws.illinois.edu\/VIP\/chillHours_maps\/chillHours.html<\/a>. \u00a0This map shows that most of Georgia is near normal for this winter.<\/p>\n

AgroClimate<\/em> has a chill hour calculator at\u00a0https:\/\/agroclimate.org\/tools\/Chill-Hours-Calculator\/<\/a>\u00a0which allows you to choose the chill hour model and the time period of interest.<\/p>\n

I also ran across another source of good general climate information on a variety of topics at\u00a0https:\/\/mygeohub.org\/groups\/u2u\/decision_resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you have a good map of average chill hours for Georgia or the Southeast, please let me know so I can pass it on.<\/p>\n

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Winston Eason of Clayton County wrote me this morning asking about finding maps for average chill hours for a class he is teaching on backyard fruit trees and orchards. \u00a0So far I have not been successful in finding a Georgia-specific map on average chill hours, but I did run across several other sources of information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries","category-extension-agent-outreach","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}