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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…
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Tropical Storm Andrea has come and gone quickly and the next week looks like it will be a quiet one for the Atlantic tropics. The National Hurricane Center is showing a small region of potential development in the southern Gulf, but it only has a 20% chance of developing in the next week so it…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that two areas of abnormally dry conditions were added to Puerto Rico this week. In the mainland Southeast, Florida is currently the only state showing drought. Generally, the western part of the state improved but the East Coast got worse. Overall, the area of drought decreased, but…
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The next few days are going to be very warm across the region, especially those areas away from the coasts. Since it is the first big heat wave of the year, most folk are not yet acclimatized to the hot and sultry weather and need to take special care to keep themselves, their kids, their…
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(UPDATE as of 6/24 at 10 pm: Today TS Andrea formed in the central Atlantic and became the first named storm of the Atlantic season. It is not expected to last long.) Today there is an area of disturbed weather in the central Atlantic Ocean that has a 70% chance of briefly developing tropical characteristics…
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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! This webinar series provides the region with information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics such as wildfires, agriculture production,…
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Today is the start of astronomical summer, when the sun is highest in the sky. You can read more about the solstice at https://www.space.com/summer-solstice-when-what. Today is also Share Your Stripe Day, when people across the world share their stripes that depict the earth’s warming climate. The graph below shows the annual average temperature for the…