Yet another warm February left Northeast apple growers worrying if their crops will survive below-freezing spring temperatures. In this week's blog, Art DeGaetano of the Northeast Regional Climate Center talks about an online tool that helps apple growers estimate risk and damages to their yields based on bloom stage, historical climate data, and local temperature forecasts.
Can we blame this year’s active start to the severe weather season on the winter’s weak La Niña conditions?
We’re about to go Beyond the Data in five ways. In keeping with the spirit of our blog, we’ll take a look at something obvious from the NCEI monthly climate analysis, then dig a little harder into some even more pertinent climatological truths.