In the latest podcast I discuss who has the best chance at picking up more than 2" of snow, the potential for snow to affect the football game and for light icing issues in southeast Nebraska. It will be a cold Halloween and then turn mild as we head into later next week.

In the latest episode Dr. Jackson Ziems and Kyle Broderick join to talk about the different bacterial and fungal diseases that affected corn in Nebraska this year, including Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Goss's Wilt, Gray Leaf Spot, and Tar Spot, which has now spread as far west as south central Nebraska. Good discussion on the difficulty in determining the difference between some diseases with just our eyes and the proper management/treatment of said diseases. 

In this episode of Fridays with a Scientist Taylor Grace, a Ph.D. candidate in OU's School of Meteorology, joins the podcast to talk about wintertime heat waves and its impact on agriculture, with a focus on a December 2021 case that affected the Southern Great Plains.

In this interview, Dr. Adams-Selin from Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research explains why #hail is more common in the #greatplains than elsewhere, why size of hail alone doesn't explain all agricultural hail damage, about recent advancements in understanding of hail development, and the potential for a 2-year field campaign to fill in significant knowledge gaps.

In this episode, Dylan and Kyle talk about the various weather related issues that caused problems for soybean in Nebraska in 2023. They also go in depth on many of the diseases they have or are seeing in the clinic. For more information on the clinic visit: https://plantpathology.unl.edu/plant-pest-diagnostic-clinic

In this week's edition of Fridays with a Scientist, Bridget Gross, the recruiting specialist in the School of Natural Resources at UNL, talks about her past experiences working with beekeepers in Ohio, Nebraska, North Carolina, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. Apparently beekeeping also transcends language and cultural barriers! Then we talk about her pivot to student recruiting over the past six months and the most fun aspects of that job.

In the latest podcast, I discuss thoughts on the storm system going through the state in the next 24 hours, including the severe threat in central and eastern Nebraska, flash flood risk in northeastern Nebraska, and the high wind threat across a lot of the state tomorrow. Then I discuss the weekend outlook, moderating temperatures early next week, a mid-week cold front and a warm-up headed into next weekend. Then I move into the update portion of the podcast and talk about recent precipitation, VegDRI and the latest changes on the Drought Monitor.

In this episode of FWAS, Dr. Nathan Mueller of University of Nebraska Extension discusses why the previous season was so challenging for wheat in southeast Nebraska, why fall moisture is so vital, benefits of snow cover in the winter, issues with excessive wetness in May, and why wheat is not more prominent in northeast Nebraska.

Highlights from the outlook include frost/freeze risk Saturday morning, pleasant weather first part of next week, a possible storm next Wednesday-Thursday that could deliver much needed rainfall to parts of southern Nebraska. In the update portion, highlights include a look at precipitation over the last week, soil moisture, and a review of growing season precipitation across the state and broader north central U.S.