Here is a teacher’s resource for educators of kids in grades 5-8 on coastal impacts of climate variability and change. The material was jointly produced by NASA and EPA in 2008, so it is a little dated since we have had a lot of hurricanes and tropical storms that affected…
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A messy area of low pressure off the coast of Florida this week is drifting west and is expected to bring some rain to coastal areas of northeast Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina early this week. The low has only a small chance of developing into a tropical depression, so…
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As I am writing, the rain from TS Elsa is falling outside. The tree frogs are going nuts! The remains of Elsa are crossing Georgia’s coastal plain tonight, and it is headed off to the northeast towards the Carolinas and Virginia. It is expected to be a tropical depression by…
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Elsa has restrengthened back to a hurricane after weakening earlier this weekend. It is now headed for the Cedar Key area in the Big Bend region of the northwest Florida Coast. I was interested to read from Brian McNulty, one of the hurricane specialists I follow, that “the last time…
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As of 11 pm on Monday July 5, 2021, Tropical Storm Elsa has crossed Cuba and is now over the ocean again. It has lost a little strength over the Cuban mountains but is expected to regain some of it, although the prediction is that it will not regain hurricane…
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Just a quick update on Tropical Storm Elsa, which briefly reached hurricane status before weakening as it lost its organization. There is still a chance that it could regain hurricane status again if it strengthens over warm water in the eastern Gulf, but most likely it will remain a tropical…
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Tropical Storm Elsa formed early this morning over the Atlantic Ocean. It is the earliest “E” storm on record in the Atlantic Basin. It is also unusual in that it formed from an African easterly wave, way ahead of when that part of the basin usually gets active. In fact,…
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