Tropical weather
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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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The Southeast Farm Press had an excellent slide show on damage to North Carolina farm fields caused by the flooding from Hurricane Matthew here. Many fields were completely submerged, ruining soybeans and cotton as well as other crops. These pictures were taken by Hyde County Extension Agent Andrea Gibbs. She credits helicopter pilot Sid Cayton of…
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This morning Growing Georgia posted a lengthy story from Growing America on updated state by state assessments of damages to agriculture caused by Hurricane Matthew. You can read the article here. In many states, damage was bad but less than expected, while in North and South Carolina the damages from heavy rainfall in particular has caused…