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California cold snap threatens $2 billion citrus harvest
2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An Arctic air mass has sent temperatures plunging across California, threatening the state's lucrative citrus harvest, its winter vegetables and its more cold-sensitive strawberry crop, weather and agricultural experts said on Friday. Temperatures throughout the state fell by as much as 20 degrees Fahrenheit (11 degrees Celsius) below normal on Thursday and Friday as snowfall and sub-freezing conditions forced a 17-hour closure of a key highway, Interstate 5, through the mountains north of Los...
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Rains to ease drought in Delta; cold snap for Plains
2013-01-09 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy rains in the Delta and southeast over the next week will provide some relief from the worst drought in over 50 years while a cold snap early next week is posing a threat to the struggling wheat crop in the U.S. Plains States, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday. "That is something that definitely will need to be watched," said Andy Karst, meteorologist for World Weather Inc. referring to a turn to bitter cold weather early next week. Karst said warmer weather this week would...
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