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Post by nautonnier on Mar 21, 2017 10:26:51 GMT
Widespread damage from Southeast freeze At least 90 percent of the peach crop in South Carolina (the nation’s top peach producer behind California, with a typical crop value of $90 million) was wiped out by freezing temperatures late last week, according to the state’s agriculture commissioner. The state’s wheat and corn fields also suffered heavy damage, reported WISTV. A less severe freeze in Georgia may have ruined anywhere from 25 to 75 percent of that state’s peach crop. Blueberries across the Southeast also experienced major damage, as summarized by Louisville, KY, broadcast meteorologist John Belski. It dropped to 25°F in Gainesville, FL, on Thursday morning, the coldest reading for so late in the year in more than a century of Gainesville records. Jacksonville’s 28°F was also a record for so late in the year. Update: Total crop losses in South Carolina and Georgia could approach $1 billion, according to an AP report filed Monday afternoon. From; www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/tornado-risk-amping-up-this-week-and-beyondAnd all this in a year that is expected to be the hottest year evah!! As I pointed out in another thread the atmospheric heat engine is not running as it should.
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 21, 2017 14:32:05 GMT
Widespread damage from Southeast freeze At least 90 percent of the peach crop in South Carolina (the nation’s top peach producer behind California, with a typical crop value of $90 million) was wiped out by freezing temperatures late last week, according to the state’s agriculture commissioner. The state’s wheat and corn fields also suffered heavy damage, reported WISTV. A less severe freeze in Georgia may have ruined anywhere from 25 to 75 percent of that state’s peach crop. Blueberries across the Southeast also experienced major damage, as summarized by Louisville, KY, broadcast meteorologist John Belski. It dropped to 25°F in Gainesville, FL, on Thursday morning, the coldest reading for so late in the year in more than a century of Gainesville records. Jacksonville’s 28°F was also a record for so late in the year. Update: Total crop losses in South Carolina and Georgia could approach $1 billion, according to an AP report filed Monday afternoon. From; www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/tornado-risk-amping-up-this-week-and-beyondThis confirms:. I don't worry about heat. I worry about cold!
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Post by graywolf on Mar 21, 2017 17:59:19 GMT
Well when we were tracking into the last low solar we saw the russian 'heat Dome' and their grain output getting trashed to the point the world aid programme was impacted. With the African millions in need such an event this summer would not be good? Then the volume drop that brought us the record low ice volume across the Arctic Basin that year would wipe us out this year so there's more reasons to hope low solar does not favour HP formation!
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Post by acidohm on Mar 21, 2017 18:05:22 GMT
Strawberry crop new Zealand, trashed Vegetables in Spain, trashed
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 21, 2017 18:31:01 GMT
Peaches trashed.
70's redux?
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Post by Ratty on Mar 22, 2017 0:06:07 GMT
Strawberry crop new Zealand, trashed Vegetables in Spain, trashed Peaches trashed. 70's redux? My lawn trashed. Still raining here. Neighbour has a boat, so I'm not worried.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 22, 2017 1:42:23 GMT
Strawberry crop new Zealand, trashed Vegetables in Spain, trashed Peaches trashed. 70's redux? My lawn trashed. Still raining here. Neighbour has a boat, so I'm not worried. Spring Break in Florida trashed. College vegetables upset but breathing.
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Post by nonentropic on Mar 22, 2017 2:55:42 GMT
There are a lot of places and there is a lot of variability and opportunity for records and disasters. By way of example Strawberries were fine where I live in NZ but I am sure that there was a failure somewhere in NZ.
Relax it will on average be approximately average.
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 22, 2017 9:22:24 GMT
Strawberry crop new Zealand, trashed Vegetables in Spain, trashed Peaches trashed. 70's redux? My lawn trashed. Still raining here. Neighbour has a boat, so I'm not worried. Ratty only get worried when he starts collecting breeding pairs of animals
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Post by graywolf on Mar 22, 2017 10:40:29 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Mar 22, 2017 12:10:33 GMT
I can understand, incidentally, how brightening could be an issue.
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 22, 2017 14:23:15 GMT
Can't win with some folk. GLobal Dimming was the cause claimed for the onset of an ice age in the mid-70's - now the same folk are claiming that it is just preventing 'runaway warming'. The only common factors being the demand for research grants and the closure of fossil fuel power plants.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 22, 2017 17:27:41 GMT
There are a lot of places and there is a lot of variability and opportunity for records and disasters. By way of example Strawberries were fine where I live in NZ but I am sure that there was a failure somewhere in NZ. Relax it will on average be approximately average. As usual, the market will probably sort this out for us. While markets may react to many things, scarcity (ceteris paribus) should leave its statistical mark. Even figuring liars will have a hard time masking (adjusting) such data. Thus variability above and below the norm should be identifiable. Production and consumption areas of cold-intolerant fruits and veggies are well known. Seems to me a simple geographic model would 'sort the trash'. Substitution via transport can be accounted for. Ahhh ... for my old GIS software and another 20 years of vertical posture.
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Post by Ratty on Mar 22, 2017 23:03:50 GMT
Another 20 years vertical? By 2037, I will be very cranky ..... especially if the globe continues to warm.
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 22, 2017 23:51:22 GMT
Another 20 years vertical? By 2037, I will be very cranky ..... especially if the globe continues to warm. You will have to be cold and cranky
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