Climate outlooks
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Yesterday we added three named tropical storms to the list–Wilford in the central Atlantic, Alpha near Portugal (!) and Beta in the Gulf of Mexico. Blowoff from TS Beta is currently providing cloud cover to parts of the Southeast, including Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. TS Beta is expected to slowly gain strength to a…
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The latest climate outlook from the Climate Prediction Center shows that October and October through December are both expected to be warmer than normal. Precipitation for October is expected to be above normal in Florida and along the coasts but could be drier than normal farther inland, away from tropical weather. For the October through…
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As of Wednesday night, Sally has weakened to a depression and is slowly moving off to the northeast. It will continue to move through Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, dropping rain that could be as much as 10 inches in some places as it continues to move to the northeast at an…
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As of 11 pm Tuesday night, Hurricane Sally is creeping north towards the east side of Mobile Bay in Alabama. It is expected to make landfall over the next few hours, but timing is tough when it is only moving at 2 mph. The slow movement is piling up water to the east of the…
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Rains of over 15 inches could occur in southern Alabama as slow-moving Hurricane Sally moves onshore, most likely early Wednesday near the MS-AL border. A wide band of rainfall of 6-10 inches is currently predicted to stretch north through central Alabama and on into northern Georgia, the South Carolina highlands, and parts of western North…
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Last Friday it was not even a named storm. Today Sally is a tropical storm which is expected to become a hurricane on Monday and make landfall as a category 2 hurricane near New Orleans sometime on Tuesday morning. It is a slow mover, which means that it will pile up a lot of storm…
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Tropical Depression 19 is crossing over the southern tip of Florida this morning and is expected to continue in a WNW direction out into the Gulf of Mexico for the next several days. It should eventually become a tropical storm, most likely named Sally, and is currently expected to make landfall somewhere between Pensacola FL…