Tools for climate and agriculture
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Here is a new app that is available to growers across the United States to help manage insect pests and diseases in a variety of crops. According to their website, “MyIPM has you covered to control and manage diseases and pests in your crops.” Many of the contributors to the development of the app are…
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If you like to play with maps and climate outlooks, you might be interested in this NOAA site from their Physical Sciences lab. It allows you to look at the individual climate anomalies for each EL Nino or La Nina in the period 1991-2020 to see how they varied. It shows both global patterns and…
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The fine folks at CoCoRaHS posted this map showing counties across the country that had only one or no precipitation observers. I am sad to see so many counties in Georgia that don’t have any observers, not even at extension offices. South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida are doing a much better job of getting…
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The USDA published a new Plant Hardiness Zone map about a week ago. The previous map was produced in 2012 and since that time gardeners have used it to determine what plants are suitable for their yards. The Plant Hardiness Zone map is based on the average lowest temperature a location receives sometime each winter.…
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This week we are expecting a big change in the prevailing weather pattern as a strong cold front moves through the region from northwest to southeast on Tuesday and Wednesday. The front will not have a lot of precipitation with it but will bring sharply colder and drier air to a lot of the region…
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I’ve seen some spectacular photos of autumn color this year in northern parts of the United States as well as in higher elevations in the Southern Appalachians. If you are interested in going on a leaf-peeping trip, here are some sources of information about where the color is at peak. If you go, drive carefully…
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If you are a CoCoRaHS precipitation observer, you may be interested in this new website that allows you to check out the climatology of your station at https://dex.cocorahs.org/?skip=0&take=50. If you don’t know what CoCoRaHS is, check out their website at https://cocorahs.org/ and consider joining a great citizen science project measuring precipitation across the nations of…