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Irma hit the Florida peninsula almost ten months ago, causing heavy damage to many farms in the region. Producers are slowly recovering from the impacts of the winds and flood, but dairy farmers have been slow to benefit because of a clause in the recovery legislation which barred dairy farmers…
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After over a month with no activity, the latest outlook from the National Hurricane Center shows the possibility of two different storms forming in the Atlantic Ocean. One of them, east of the US, has a 60% chance of developing into a tropical storm, but it is likely to turn…
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The latest hurricane forecast for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season from Colorado State University was released this week. In this latest forecast they have reduced their expected number of storms due to the cold temperatures in the source area in the eastern equatorial Atlantic Ocean and the developing El Niño…
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In the last day I’ve seen a couple of new stories on the response (or lack thereof) to damage from Hurricanes Maria and Irma, which hit Puerto Rico and Florida, respectively. The National Public Radio story looks at FEMA’s tardy response to the devastation from Maria across the island of…
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A new study in Nature this week showed results of research on the forward speed of hurricanes and how it has changed over time. A rough rule of thumb for the amount of rain dropped by a tropical system is to take 100 and divide it by the forward speed…
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Since we are just starting out our 2018 hurricane season, now is the time to think about how you are going to handle this year’s potential tropical events. Here is a good article from AZFamily on five lessons that we learned from last year’s storms. While we are not expecting…
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The official start of the Atlantic hurricane season is today, June 1. Obviously, we jumped the gun this year with Alberto transitioning from subtropical to tropical storm over land, but it is not that unusual to have a tropical system in the Atlantic before June 1. It is very unusual,…
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