Climate and Ag in the news
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As the tropical season progresses, the State Climate Office of North Carolina continues its series of blog posts about historical storms that made big impacts in the past. Here are three new stories about Hurricane Floyd. Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Floyd made landfall in eastern North Carolina, ending several days of rain and beginning…
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Hurricanes and tropical storms can remake coastlines. This is one reason that we evacuate people from vulnerable coastal areas even when storms stay out to sea. Here is a set of before and after images of the North Carolina coast before and after Hurricane Dorian approached the area. In some places the effects are subtle,…
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The latest ENSO update from NOAA shows that neutral conditions are occurring in the eastern Pacific Ocean right now and are expected to continue for the next few months. When there is no El Niño or La Niña occurring, it is harder to make a useful prediction about what is likely to happen in the…
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If you’ve been thinking that we have had a large number of days with maximum temperatures at or above 90 F, you are not mistaken. For many stations in the Southeast for the year to date, they have numbers which are ranked in the top five. We got an early start this year with quite…
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A Potential Tropical Cyclone notification has been issued by the National Hurricane Center for the likely development of a tropical storm (most likely named Humberto, the next name on the list) in the next day or two. The models have been all over the place with this because it has been such a disorganized system,…
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You may know a little about the asteroid that hit Mexico about 66 million years ago, leading to the death of many species including many dinosaurs. But scientists have been puzzled about whether it was the blast from the impact, a tsunami, or later cooling that killed them off. A new study published this week…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is continuing its blog series of posts on memorable hurricanes this week with their latest post on Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd n 1999. While Dennis was not a strong storm, it did drop a lot of rain that later helped amplify the destruction of Floyd about 12 days…