History
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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…
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If you’ve been following the European news this year, you know that they have experienced a lot of extreme heat which has killed over 1,500 people in France alone. But along with that has come a long and extreme drought which has reduced water levels in many of the reservoirs in the region. One reservoir…
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If you want a good example in story form about how hurricane forecasts have improved over time, you may be interested in this article on Medium.com by my husband (also a meteorologist) Dr. John Knox, who experienced his first hurricane before he was born when his pregnant mom encountered Hurricane Cleo in Miami in 1964.…
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Every time there is a drought, I am asked how the latest drought compares to the historical droughts of the 1930s and 1950s, which were terrible droughts that covered a substantial part of the US. Now there is a new popular paper which discusses the comparison between the early 21st century drought from 1998-2014 (which…
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We know from previous experience that large volcanic eruptions like Mount Pinatubo in 1992 can push aerosol droplets high into the atmosphere, reflecting incoming sunlight and causing a cooling effect that can last for several years. A new research report published this week shows that a mysterious eruption that caused global cooling in the 6th…
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Camille, which came ashore in Mississippi in August 1969 with wind speeds of as much as 185 mph and a storm surge that rivaled Hurricane Katrina in 2005, causing a lot of damage along the coast. Fewer people remember that Camille caused a second…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is starting a series of blog articles about historic hurricanes which have affected their coast in the past. Many of these also affected the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia. While there have not been too many hurricanes which have affected this region in recent years compared to…