Tropical weather
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UPDATE: Tropical Storm Cindy became a named storm today. Please keep an eye on the Gulf as the storm continues to develop and heads north. As I noted earlier, the tropics are becoming more active, and Tropical Storm Bret has formed off the coast of South America. It is not expected to grow and may…
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Those of you who are older (myself included) may remember Hurricane Agnes, who blew through central Georgia in June 1972, causing immense flooding and leading to the death of 122 people, including nine in Florida from severe thunderstorms associated with the storm. Agnes was one of the most prolific rain-producing storms on record in the…
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As I mentioned earlier this week, the Atlantic Ocean’s tropical season is starting to kick in, and there are two areas which may become named storms in the next few days. You can read more about it at Weather Underground here. No immediate threat for us in the US, but they will bear watching for…
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Even though we are only a few weeks into the Atlantic tropical season, today there are two potential areas of development. One is in the western Gulf of Mexico and is projected as a possible storm from a system that may be forming in the eastern Pacific Ocean and may cross over Mexico into the…
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In 2004 a tornado associated with Hurricane Ivan hit Athens, GA, hundreds of miles away from the center of the storm. You may be surprised to know that many hurricanes have tornadoes associated with them, both in the spiral arms outside of the center of the storm and in the eye wall. Most of them…
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Today is the beginning of the Atlantic Tropical Season. In June, most of our storms, if they form, are likely to come from the Gulf of Mexico or along the East Coast. But we may actually get our first storm of the official season (remember, TS Arlene came and went very quickly in April) from…
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Twenty-five years ago this coming August 24, my meteorologist husband and I were in Wisconsin glued to the television as Hurricane Andrew came onshore just south of Miami, packing powerful winds. His aunt lived on Key Biscayne, which missed the eye of the storm by less than ten miles (fortunately, she was well inland at…