Severe
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As severe weather, including devastating tornadoes, moves across the South today (read more here), it’s eerily timely that The Seeker published a story just yesterday on the increase in tornado outbreaks in the South due to warmer weather. This year so far temperatures have been much above normal, leading to two tornado outbreaks in January…
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Although severe weather can and does happen in Georgia and the Southeast in every month of the year, spring is the season with the most events and the highest chance of occurrence. The National Weather Service is recognizing this week as Severe Weather Awareness Week and will be posting stories every day about different types…
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Each year US Tornadoes keeps a web list of all of the large tornado outbreaks that have occurred. They use a baseline of 20 tornadoes in one event to define what an outbreak is. So far 2017 has had two outbreaks, including the one on January 2 and the one January 21-23. You can come…
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Weather Underground reported today that the death toll from this week’s tornado outbreak (19 so far) was the highest for January since 1969 and has already surpassed the total number of deaths for the entire year of 2016 across the US. Since peak tornado season is still a couple of months away, that toll is…
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A very tight low pressure center is located in the far northwest corner of Georgia tonight. The pressure of the storm in the center near Dalton GA was 981.2 millibars or 28.97 inches of mercury. This would be one of the lowest pressures ever reported in a non-tropical storm in Georgia and may set the…
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My heart goes out to the folks around the Southeast that have been hit by severe weather the past few days and the families that have lost loved ones. While the threat of the worst weather is mostly over, sooner or later another round will come. Here is an article from US Tornadoes which describes…
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I don’t usually post weather forecasts, but this one is so bad that I want to make sure it is widely seen. VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has placed most of South Georgia and northern Florida as well as southeast Alabama in the HIGH RISK category. Today, you need to stay tuned…