September 2019
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As of 11 pm on Labor Day night, Hurricane Dorian is sitting and spinning with virtually no movement. It’s been that way for most of the day, and the center of the eye has moved only about 40 miles the entire day, which gives it an average forward speed of less than 2 mph. While…
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As you might expect, I’ve had a lot of questions about hurricanes this week. Mostly they have been about Hurricane Dorian (I’ll post more about that in a minute), but some have been about hurricanes in general. One question I’ve gotten is whether hurricanes are affected by our warming climate. The answer is more complicated…
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While most of the computer models of Hurricane Dorian’s track at present keep the center of circulation offshore as it moves up the coast, there is still considerable uncertainty because of the slow movement of the storm and the weak steering currents. Because of this the governors of Georgia and South Carolina have decided to…
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For climatologists, today is the first day of fall. We use calendar months instead of the astronomical calendar because in the past it was easier to do climate calculations using the calendar month. But it turns out that the climatological seasons are better aligned with what we actually see in the annual swing of temperatures…
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