Tropical weather
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As I write this, Hurricane Debbie is hitting the northeast coast of Australia. While it’s not the strongest hurricane to hit the country, it is still packing a punch. Newser has a story with links to other feeds about the storm as it comes onshore. One of the biggest impacts is expected to be the…
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NOAA reported this morning (link) that the World Meteorological Organization has retired the storm names “Matthew” and “Otto” from their list of storm names. You probably remember the impacts of Matthew, which hit the East Coast and caused incredible damage to eastern North Carolina as well as brought rain to the coasts of Georgia and…
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While the National Hurricane Center’s web site indicates no tropical storm development in the next five days, there are signs in several of the computer forecast models that something tropical may be brewing in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast. If the forecasts are accurate, then we could see the first tropical-type storm of…
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NOAA released a description of some changes to the suite of products put out by the National Hurricane Center which will become effective in the upcoming Atlantic tropical season. The updates include storm surge watches and warnings and some enhancements in watches and warnings for storms that have not yet reached official storm status. You…
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Final reports on Hurricane Hermine and Tropical Storm Julia are now available from the National Hurricane Center. You can find the one for Hermine at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092016_Hermine.pdf and the one for Julia at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112016_Julia.pdf. The report for Hurricane Matthew is still being finalized and will be available in a few weeks.
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NOAA has just released a very nice photo retrospective of the 2016 hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin. The season was considered as “above normal” this year because of the number of storms. Be sure to check it out at https://portal.nnvl.noaa.gov/arcgis/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=2961a294abf74674a30bd973703c91d3.
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Now that most of the harvest for this year is finished, losses from Hurricane Matthew can be more accurately determined. AgWeb published a story today on how farmers in Marion County, South Carolina, were affected by the storm wind and flooding. You can read it here.