AgroClimate Tools
Climate Tools
- Climate Risk
- County level forecasts of temperature and precipitation
- Freeze Risk Maps
- Freeze probabilities based on ENSO phases
- Cooling / Heating Degree Days
- CDD and HDD forecast, historical patterns, and probability, associated with ENSO Phases
Crop Diseases
- Strawberry Disease Tool
- Recommendations for timing fungicide applications for Anthracnose and Botrytis fruit rot
Drought
- KBDI Maps
- Forecasts of the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI)
- Lawn and Garden Moisture
- Monitoring Provided by the Alabama Office of the State Climatologist
- LGMI Forecast
Crop Yield
- County Yield Database
- Crop yield series, trends and residuals at the county level
- Regional Yield Maps
- Map of average residuals (%) for El Niño, La Niña, and Neutral years
- Yield Risk Forecast
- Yield risk based on location, planting date, soil type and climate scenario
- Irrigation Tool
- Peanut irrigation forecast based on ENSO phases
Crop Development
- Growing Degree Days
- GDD forecast, historical patterns, and probability, associated with ENSO Phases
- Chill Accumulation
- Forecasts of expected chill hours (45°F) and chill units accumulation for selected fruit crops
- Chill Accumulation Maps
- Chill accumulation for seasonal and biweekly periods from Oct 1 through April 30