Tropical weather
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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.
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With the early formation of Hurricane Alex in mid-January and the appearance of Hurricane Otto in Central America on Thanksgiving this year, you could ask if the Atlantic hurricane season is getting longer. Fortunately, Ryan Truchelut analyzed the trends in the season and published the results in a recent Capital Weather Gang posting. While the…
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Today is not only the last day of meteorological fall but is also the last day of the Atlantic tropical season. For the Atlantic, this was the first above-normal season since 2012. The Atlantic saw 15 named storms during 2016, including 7 hurricanes (Alex, Earl, Gaston, Hermine, Matthew, Nicole, and Otto), 3 of which were…
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You may not remember Hurricane Alex, but it formed in mid-January this year, long before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. And now we have Hurricane Otto, which passed from the Atlantic to the Eastern Pacific Ocean yesterday, setting a record for the latest landfall in any calendar year in…
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While the official hurricane season is almost over, it’s not too late for a tropical storm to develop. And today we have TS Otto in the Caribbean Sea, a newly formed storm which may become a hurricane before it makes landfall straight west in Central America. You can read more about it at Weather Underground…