Cold Weather Concerns for Upcoming Several Days

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, Nursery Crops, Specialty Crops, Vegetables, Weather

We realize farmers are likely the world’s best weather watchers, so it should be no surprise that concerns about this week’s expected cold weather seem to be growing with each forecast. We have received a number of weather warnings over the last day or so from a variety of sources, about possible freeze events in numerous agriculture production areas of …

Ag Forecast on Weather.Com

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia, Weather

The Weather Channel Interactive, in partnership with agricultural products leader Monsanto Company, announced a new section on weather.com® dedicated to weather and farming at www.weather.com/farming. Within the Agriculture News & Forecast, the main feature is the Farmers Forecast, which includes up-to-date weather information that matters most to the agricultural community, such as severe weather alerts affecting crops and detailed data …

Holiday Weather and Carrots

Gary Cooper Specialty Crops, Vegetables, Weather

Not that the two go together in any particular way…It’s just that I decided to pair some weather outlook feature news from USDA this week with some interesting findings from carrot research for these holiday reports.

Storm Tracking

Randall Weiseman Weather

A triple threat of storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine are threatening the southeast.

Figuring Damage From Fay

Randall Weiseman Cotton, General, Specialty Crops, Weather

As all eyes are now on Gustav, officials are still trying to determine how much damage the heavy rains and winds from Tropical Storm Fay caused – from citrus and vegetables in south Florida to cotton and pecans in the tri-state area.

AL-FL-GA Fay Rainfall Totals

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia, Weather

Tropical Storm Fay is one for the record-books as the storm that just wouldn’t quit has finally moved out of our area, but left it’s mark with varying rainfall amounts. Here are just some of the official amounts recorded across the Southeast…

Lots of Rain in Indian River Region

Randall Weiseman Citrus, Florida, Weather

As Tropical Storm Fay continues to drop rain across parts of Florida, when it comes to citrus groves, Doug Bournique with the Indian River Citrus League says they have a lot of water standing out there right now.

FAY EXPECTED TO MOVE MOVE BACK OVER FLORIDA…BUT TAKING ITS TIME

Dan Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia, Weather

FAY HAS BEEN STATIONARY DURING THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. HOWEVER…A SLOW MOTION TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST IS FORECAST TO BEGIN SOON AND CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. AT 11:00 AM EDT THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM FAY WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.3 NORTH…LONGITUDE 80.8 WEST OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF DAYTONA BEACH FLORIDA. For the entire hurricane advisory …