Boone Regional Beekeepers - February - Zoom - Missouri climate trends

Missouri Climate Trends

This special online event features climatologist Pat Guinan. Dr. Guinan will talk about Missouri climate trends over the past 127 years, focusing on annual and seasonal temperature and precipitation patterns, extreme events such as drought and flood, and other environmental influences.

Pat has been employed by University of Missouri Extension as a climatologist since 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Missouri in 2004 and, in addition to his Extension and campus activities as an Associate Professor in Climatology, he operates a statewide network of 40 automated weather stations, serves as the State Climatologist for Missouri, Director of the Missouri Climate Center, and co-coordinator of the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network in Missouri.

All content contained or linked in this event  should be treated as copyrighted documents, or available for personal use only.

We will also be discussing

• Discussion about weather impacts on honeybee colonies
• What's going on in the hives
• How to get the most out of winter dead-outs
• What beekeepers should be doing with their colonies during March.
• Follow-up of the January Q&A for beginners beekeeping Zoom class

BRBA TOOLS

BRBA offers two exclusive benefits for members paying an additional $10 fee:

• A collection of pneumatic tools and jigs for assembly of frames.
• A Dadant electric 6/3 extractor with all the supplies to decap, screen, and bottle honey.

If you have used these tools you know how valuable they are to your hive construction and honey harvesting.  A change has been implemented that may impact your use of these tools.  If you expect to use the tools in 2022, and have already paid a $5 membership fee you will need to pay an additional $10.  Please reply to this email if you need to pay the additional fee. This additional fee is needed to cover the upkeep, maintenance, and possible repair/replacement of the equipment.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

BRBA survives because of dedicated volunteers and you can become more involved!  A shared workload promotes a stronger organization, but your BRBA involvement will be more personally rewarding. Please respond to this email, or to any of the advisory board, if you would like to assist.

Advisory Board

Paul Beuselinck: prbeuselinck@gmail.com

John Williams: williamsjohn177@hotmail.com

Dorrie Crawford: crawforddorrie@gmail.com

Frank Thomas (Treasurer): franklinlthomas@gmail.com

Anna Comfort: aebohn@gmail.com

Tom Coudron:  coudront1@gmail.com

Carl Korschgen:  carlkorsch@aol.com

George Frees: gwfrees@gmail.com