Tropical weather
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Those of you who have had to deal with the aftermath of recent tropical disasters like Hurricanes Helene, Ian, and Matthew will likely relate to the days of heat that emergency workers had to deal with during the clean-up of the storms. Some of my colleagues at the University of Georgia recently published a paper…
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November 30 marked the official end of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. It was a quiet one in the United States, with no landfalling hurricanes and just one tropical storm, Chantal. But the season as a whole was not that quiet and ended with a bang as Hurricane Melissa flattened a large part of western…
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Even though it is not quite the end of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the tropics are very quiet right now and no additional storms are expected. Tropical expert Brian McNoldy recently wrote a detailed description of this year’s hurricane season that you might find interesting. You can read it at https://bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2025/11/summary-of-unusual-2025-hurricane-season.html. In the summary,…
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One of the biggest surprises to me during this past Atlantic hurricane season was just how good the forecast models were. One of the biggest surprises was the new (to me) Google DeepMind AI model, which did an amazing job of forecasting the path of the storms this year and did well at predicting intensity…
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Now that Hurricane Melissa has moved out of the region, farmers there are starting to assess the incredible losses that they are experiencing from the devastating storm. I have not seen many actual numbers yet because it takes time to do a complete assessment of the losses, as we know from our own experiences with…
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While the Gulf has been completely quiet this Atlantic tropical season so far, there has been plenty of activity in other parts of the Atlantic. This week, Major Hurricane Melissa is on track to make a direct hit on the island nation of Jamaica, with landfall projected to occur on Tuesday morning potentially as a…
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In the last week, we have been following the progression of a tropical wave off of Africa that has turned into Tropical Storm Melissa over the last day. This could be one of the last tropical waves we see this year as the focus of development for tropical storms late in the season usually comes…
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