Pam Knox
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The Climate Prediction Center issued their monthly outlook for September this week. It shows above normal temperatures are likely for the entire region in the coming month. Dry conditions are expected in northern Alabama and northwest Georgia but wet conditions are expected along the coast. No doubt the fact that this forecast was issued on…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has issued their climate summary for August today at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=207&h=5666e5c1.
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Today is a great day to remind folks in the Southeast about these moving wind maps! You can find the black and white US map at https://hint.fm/wind/ and a nice global coverage map at https://earth.nullschool.net/. The global map also allows you to zoom and to look at different layers, but I can’t get the zoom feature…
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows an expansion of abnormally dry conditions in southeastern Georgia and parts of North and South Carolina in the last week. However, Hurricane Hermine is expected to move directly over those areas in the next two days, so those dry conditions should be completely wiped out by next week’s Drought Monitor.…
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Since Hurricane Hermine is coming onshore soon, there is bound to be a lot of damage to trees across the Southeast. Here is an interesting article from Inside Science on how and why trees break. In the case of a hurricane, a lot of tree damage also comes not from the tree breaking but being…
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Even though astronomers use the autumnal equinox as the marker for the official start of fall, climatologists use September 1. Historically it made calculations a lot easier and better represents the transition from the three hottest months to the cooler fall. And just in time comes some cooler weather, which you should see in the…
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Apologies to those readers who are not in the Southeast–one last blog post on TS Hermine. The 11 pm outlook for Hermine shows that the storm has strengthened somewhat over the evening and is now expected to come ashore as a hurricane. The path has shifted ever so slightly to the east due to the latest…
Posted in: Tropical weather