Severe
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This Day in Weather History on Facebook noted the April 30th F4 tornado which hit central Georgia in 1953. It was 300 yards in width and leveled homes on the north side of Warner Robins, Georgia, as well as barracks on the south side of the Robins Air Force Base. The tornado killed 19 people…
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Even though most of the Southeast has been dry lately, we’ve had our share of wet conditions and floods in the not-too-distant past. This article from Bloomberg News describes why experiencing a 100-year storm event does not mean you will never see one again in your lifetime. You can read it at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-22/surviving-the-100-year-flood-doesn-t-mean-99-years-of-safety.
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This week marks the 5th anniversary of the tornado outbreak that devastated parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. A total of 363 tornadoes were confirmed in 21 states and Canada, according to Wikipedia’s description here. Included in the count were four EF5 tornadoes, which were so strong that they scoured concrete off of…
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With another big outbreak of tornadoes in the central United States occurring this week, you might be interested in looking at maps which incorporate current storm reports into the record. The US Tornadoes blog posted an article last week about a new mapping tool which allows you to look at this year’s crop of tornado…
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Creative Loafing, an Atlanta weekly newspaper, published a long story this week about the impacts of severe and extreme weather, like flash flooding and heat waves, on cities. In particular, vulnerable populations like the elderly, children, and lower socioeconomic class folk are especially likely to suffer from this weather, since they often live in areas…
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According to a recent article in USA Today, the hotspot for lightning in the United States is located in Orangetree, Florida, a few miles southeast of Fort Myers on the southwest coast of the peninsula. This is based on a new satellite study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Globally, the most…
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AgWeb published an article in late March describing the changes that have occurred in growing season across the US since 1980, including graphs of both spring and fall frost changes and length of growing season. You can read it here. They attribute the changes to increasing temperatures over that time period. The article also relates the…