Zeta weakened today as it passed over the Yucatan, but it is expected to strengthen back to hurricane force before making landfall somewhere between New Orleans and Mobile sometime on Wednesday afternoon or evening. After landfall it will accelerate to the northeast–by the time it is over northern GA it…
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Hurricane Zeta formed today and is headed towards the Yucatan peninsula, where it is expected to make landfall south of Cancun before moving NE into the Gulf of Mexico. It will move north and then northeast as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday afternoon. It is not clear…
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As expected, Tropical Storm Zeta was named today and is expected to make landfall as a hurricane on Wednesday along the Louisiana coast. So far this time it looks like eastern LA is more likely to be hit, but there is still some time for things to change. The storm…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that this coming week will be quite a bit rainier than the last couple due to the passage of what is likely to be Tropical Storm Zeta (now tropical depression 28) mid-week. The heaviest rain from Zeta should fall in parts of Alabama and…
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When you see a headline like this, you just have to stop, don’t you? This is from Morning Ag Clips, which discusses the potential for harm to the poultry industry as hurricanes become stronger, wetter, and potentially more frequent (although the research on this is not clear). While most poultry…
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According to a story posted in Southeast Farm Press, Alabama’s late-planted cotton has done better than earlier-planted varieties this year. The earlier crops were hit hard by the wet and windy conditions from tropical storms this year and lost quality and yield because of the adverse conditions. The later crop…
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Do you wonder why Hurricane Michael intensified so much just before it made landfall in 2018? A new study by NASA scientists looks at this question. The new study, published in Nature Communications, identifies pre-storm conditions that can contribute to this rapid intensification – an important step in improving the ability…
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