Severe
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Now that we are getting into the growing season and will be approaching tropical season before you know it, it is a good time to prepare your farm for extreme weather conditions (or any other kind of disaster) before they happen. The Wisconsin Agriculturalist published an article this past week on making plans for a…
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Impacts from one bad weather event can often carry over into later growing seasons. For example, a flood can disturb the natural soil profiles and pull nutrients from the soil. Wind events like hurricanes can take multiple years to recover from, both in rebuilding infrastructure and in replanting crops and orchards. For example, corn from…
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This week is the average peak season for flooding in Georgia, and the National Weather Service office is marking this week as the 2021 Flood Safety Preparation Week. Flooding kills more people than any other kind of severe weather, and most of it is caused by poor behavior when people drive their cars over flooded…
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I saw an article on Yahoo News about La Nina making tornado season more severe this year. And if you look at the overall tornado season for the country, that seems to be true. But previous research has shown that the area of the most tornadoes just shifts, so that areas west of us get…
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On Twitter today, I found a reference to an interesting set of National Weather Service reports that describe past extreme weather events, including a number in the Southeast such as large hurricane events like Michael and Katrina and tornado outbreaks such as the major outbreak of 2011. These reports are geared toward both describing the…
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Outside magazine had an excellent article this month on surviving extreme weather when you are outside, whether hiking, boating, or just going about your normal business. They cover tornadoes, lightning and thunderstorms, dust storms, blizzards, and flash floods. So if you have plans to go camping, hiking, or other outdoor activities this fall and winter,…
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Have you ever been in a flash flood? Here is a terrifying 12-minute video of four adventurers who were canyoneering in Zion National Park and got caught by a flash flood forming waterfalls over the side of the canyon. They were not watching the radar carefully and they thought they would be safe where they…