Midwest Wine Press

Dr. Jeff Masters: Drought Will Cost $10 Billion This Year

by · March 23, 2013

You gotta love Weather Underground.  There’s more data than Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek combined.

In his Weather Underground blog, Dr. Jeff Masters does not like how the growing season is setting up in the Plains and parts of the Midwest.  In far northwest Iowa and far southeast Missouri, it would take nine inches of rain in a month to break the drought.

Plus, Punxsutawney Phil (the hedgehog) gets called out for “gross misrepresentation” by Ohio attorneys.  The proposed penalty for predicting an early spring is severe,  but justified. 

See: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html?entrynum=2372

 

 

 

Mark Ganchiff

Mark Ganchiff is the publisher of Midwest Wine Press, the leading source of news on the growing wine industry in the central United States. Mark has been a wine judge at the 2012 and 2014 INDY International Wine Competition, the 2014 Cold Climate Wine Competition, the 2013 Mid-American Wine Competition, the 2012 Illinois State Fair Wine Competition and the 2013 Michigan Wine Competition. He also enjoys speaking at wine events including the Cold Climate Wine Conference, the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association Annual Meeting, the Midwest Grape and Wine Conference and the Wisconsin Fruit and Vegetable Conference. Mark's articles about regional wine have appeared in Vineyard & Winery Management, WineMaker and several regional magazines. Mark is a Level One Sommelier in the Court of Master Sommeliers. He lives in Louisville, but also has a residence in Chicago.

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