Tropical weather
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Some new research at the University of Georgia indicates that sands from the Sahara, blown across the Atlantic, can do more than suppress hurricane formation. Researchers there have found that a genus of marine bacteria called Vibrio feed off the Saharan dust, leading to large blooms of the potentially harmful pathogen in ocean surface water. Vibrio…
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Several articles out this week described continuing efforts by farmers in southeast Georgia and eastern North Carolina to determine the damage caused by the wind and flooding rain from Hurricane Matthew a few weeks ago. In North Carolina, Modern Farmer reported here that while livestock farmers are starting to compost dead chickens and deal with 3300…
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Four years ago today, post-hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coast. Sandy started out as a classical late-season hurricane starting in the southwestern Caribbean Sea and crossed the eastern end of Cuba before taking a path east of the Bahamas which paralleled the East Coast of the US before taking an unusual but…
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Exactly eleven years ago today, Hurricane Wilma made landfall at Cape Romano in southern Florida as a major hurricane. This is the last major hurricane to make landfall in the US. The eleven years’ time period since the last major hurricane landfall is a record; the previous longest time period without a major storm hitting…
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While Hurricane Matthew is now one for the record books for most people (other than those in eastern North Carolina still dealing with the devastating floods in the region associated with the storm), there have been a lot of interesting stories about the storm. Many of these are on scientific aspects of the storm such…
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The Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab at UGA is currently involved with a number of ways to help partners in Haiti deal with the unprecedented impacts that some parts of that country felt after Hurricane Matthew swept across the western part of Hispaniola. In some areas nearly 100 percent of the crops and 50 percent…
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The Florida Climate Center has just published a report on Hurricane Matthew and its impacts on Florida. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/docs/Hurricane_Matthew_Florida_summary.pdf. It includes storm summary data and links to NWS reports from individual forecast offices.
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