An atmospheric scientist says the state that leads the country in fruit and vegetable production has recovered from drought but has a different threat to this year’s crops.
Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions tells Brownfield California needs warm weather and the accompanying heading degree units so the crops will grow. “Just to think this through, the severe weather event that’s going on right now in the central U.S., that started out this weekend in the west and they had snow all the way down to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.”
Snodgrass says the north-south jet stream that is bringing severe storms to the Midwest is also responsible for the chilly air in California.
