November 2020
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that due to the rain from Zeta, all abnormally dry (D0) conditions are gone from Alabama. Isolated areas of D0 also remain in Puerto Rico. dry conditions in Georgia were slightly reduced. Not much change is expected in next week’s map since most rain will occur on the…
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Currently Eta is a tropical depression located over Honduras, where it is dropping torrential amounts of rain after coming onshore in Nicaragua as a major hurricane. But this may be just the beginning of Eta’s journey. The National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting Eta to move to the northeast back over the Caribbean Sea, where…
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This monthly rainfall map for the Southeast was provided by the Southeast Regional Climate Center using Multisensor Precipitation Estimates. You can find similar maps based on radar-estimated rainfall at https://water.weather.gov/precip/. You can see the tracks of Delta and Zeta and also some rains of over 20 inches in southeast Florida, which is setting records for…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=326.
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If you have ever wondered about whether or not weather shown in the movies is real, you might enjoy this YouTube presentation on weather and the movies. It includes clips from five different movies that have significant weather in them, including “The Wizard of Oz” and “Twister”. The presenter, Ed Szoke, spends the first 9+…
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While we are watching Eta move towards Central America, our farmers in parts of the Southeast are beginning the process of recovering from Hurricane Zeta, which moved through here just a few days ago. I know people in NE Georgia who were without power for 5 days after Zeta moved through (I was only out…
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This morning Eta was just a tropical storm. As of 10 pm tonight, Eta is a major hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph and getting stronger. It is moving slowly west and is expected to hit the Nicaraguan coast sometime Tuesday morning, with incredible winds, storm surge of up to 18 feet, and torrential…