Severe
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You’ve probably all seen small hail before, with hailstones of an inch or less in diameter pelting the ground. They are interesting to look at, often with opaque interiors surrounded by clear ice shells. Bigger hail is much more rare and causes a lot more damage, both because it is larger in size and because…
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The UGA Weather Network has 86 sites around Georgia. One of them is at Mixon Farms near Waycross. I was saddened to read this story in Vegetable and Specialty Crop News today. The storms that passed through southern Georgia last week dropped tornadoes and hail as they moved through the area. One of the storms…
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We’ve had a lot of severe weather lately, and with that comes the chance of lightning. If it hits a tree, it can do a lot of damage to the tree (and anything under it). What do you do with the tree after it’s been hit? Walter Reeves has a few suggestions here. When in…
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UPDATE Apr 29 at 12:30 pm: The latest outlook from the Storm Prediction Center has reduced the chance of severe weather to “marginal” across the Southeast. That means severe weather can still occur but will likely be isolated in nature. More than one line of thunderstorms is likely through the day and evening. We are…
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Update: 11:15 am on the 23rd–Fortunately for most of Georgia, the Storm Prediction Center has reduced our chance of severe weather across the state based on the latest models. The biggest threat continues to be in southern Georgia and Alabama at this time. The map has been updated to the latest version. The latest NWS…
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The latest 3-day outlook from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center indicates that most of Georgia and Alabama along with parts of Mississippi and Florida have a moderate chance of severe weather on Thursday, April 23, 2020. While the models don’t agree on the timing yet, it looks like it may be a little earlier than the…
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The North Carolina Climate Office posted an article today putting the April 13th tornado outbreak of 2020 (which occurred across the Southeast) in historical context. North Carolina reported 16 tornadoes in the outbreak from a total of 132 tornadoes across the Southeast, which is one of the days with the highest numbers in their state’s…