Climate outlooks
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Our local National Weather Service Office posts a weekly weather briefing on Thursdays. The latest can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMsUd4sx2TI&feature=youtu.be, including a discussion of the impacts of Hurricane Delta on Georgia. Your local office may produce a similar briefing on YouTube, so check your local office page for more information.
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Hurricane Delta has now emerged from the Yucatan Peninsula and is moving back over open water in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to slowly strengthen for a while to a major hurricane again before weakening as it moves over colder water near the coast, which is caused by stirring up the water due…
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The latest outlook from the National Hurricane Center is that Hurricane Delta, now a category 4 storm, is continuing pretty much as expected towards the NW and should make its initial landfall on the northern tip of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico near Cancun on Wednesday. It will then continue to move through the Gulf…
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This morning Delta became a tropical storm, but by this evening it was already a hurricane due to rapid pressure falls in the center of circulation. The latest forecast now indicates that Delta is likely to be a major hurricane as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico, although it is expected to weaken before it…
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After another lull in the tropics, activity has picked up again. Currently, Tropical Storm Gamma is located in the southern Gulf of Mexico bringing heavy rain and some gusty winds to the Yucatan Peninsula. It is expected to wander around that region for the next few days, but the initial impacts on the Southeast are…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that Florida should receive the bulk of the rain this week as the tropics continue to be active. They will see showers from the outskirts of Tropical Storm Gamma and other rain-makers which should stay off the coast of the rest of the Southeast. Those of us who are…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released their updated outlook for October this week. It shows that most of the Southeast is now leaning towards cooler and drier conditions than normal. The Florida peninsula is the only area that is expected to be warmer and wetter than normal. This is weighted mainly towards the first half of…
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