Severe
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If you live along the Gulf Coast, this new free tool may help you identify the potential risks your home may be in danger of experiencing. When you put in your address, then it will use census tract data to determine the relative danger from different risks in the area and what kinds of insurance…
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On Monday this week, I flew from Atlanta to Washington DC to attend a conference on soil moisture monitoring. My airplane was supposed to land at Reagan National Airport (DCA), but because of a tornado warning at the airport at our scheduled arrival, we flew around in circles for a while and then were diverted…
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The Southeast has suffered from a number of severe weather events in the past few weeks, including a stormy night here in Athens GA in late July that dropped hundreds of trees and caused my neighborhood to lose power for 44 hours. Many people I know or read quoted in the news or online insisted…
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One story that I missed posting about earlier this summer is a new climatological study showing that the area where the most tornadoes occurs is shifting east from the traditional Tornado Alley in Oklahoma and the Southern Plains towards the Southeast. Scientists aren’t sure why this is occurring but link it to a movement of…
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Last week I posted a story about hail damage in the Southeast from the week of severe weather that affected parts of the Southeast. Here is another story from Vegetable Growers News that details more of the damage that hit vegetable growers around the region. The map below from Eric Snodgrass of Nutrien’s newsletter shows…
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One of the amazing things about the weather in the Southeast the past week or two is the amount of severe weather that we have seen in a month that usually does not have much. Especially notable has been the amount of large hail, which has caused severe damage to cotton, vegetable, and corn crops…
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Those of you who are located in the County Warning Area for the Atlanta National Weather Service Office may be interested in trying out this new GIS-based tornado dashboard. You can check it out here. It contains tracks of all tornadoes that have occurred in those counties since 1950. The dashboard allows you to filter…