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The National Hurricane Center is watching a front that is currently passing through the Southeast dropping rain and causing some scattered severe weather for the next couple of days for the chance of tropical development over the weekend as it stalls in northern Florida. As of tonight, the chance of development over the next week…
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If you are interested in natural hazards, you will likely be fascinated by the Tunguska explosion that occurred over Siberia on June 30, 1908. This unusual explosion occurred over a remote area of Siberia, flattening an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles. It was accompanied by a fireball and an…
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The latest monthly forecast for the climate of July 2025 shows that warmer and wetter than normal conditions are still expected to continue through the month. The only part of the region with equal chances of near, below, or above normal precipitation is the Florida Peninsula and the East Coast as far north as the…
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We are now in the thick of summer, and June was warmer than normal in most of the region. The exception was in most of Alabama and parts of Georgia and South Carolina, where the most rain fell. Generally, wetter than normal conditions in those areas helped eliminate the drought there, but drier than normal…
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Today an area of low pressure organized as it moved from the Yucatan Peninsula west into the Bay of Campeche. It has continued to develop today into a tropical depression and there is a chance that it could briefly become Tropical Storm Barry tonight or tomorrow morning before it moves over northeast Mexico and falls…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the heaviest rain this week will stay off the coast in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, but areas that border that, especially southern AL, the Florida Panhandle, and the west coast of Florida, could all see a lot of rain over the next week, with frequent showers occurring.…
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A piece of very bad news for those of us who live in the hurricane region of the United States was released this past week. The U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts. This data is essential to accurate forecasting of hurricane conditions…