Tropical weather
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The National Hurricane Center is continuing to watch a pair of tropical waves moving west across the Atlantic for potential development later this week. The waves are expected to interact in an area of low Saharan dust and could form a named storm in early August as the season starts to ramp up. Since there…
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The National Hurricane Center is showing an area with a 40% chance of development in the western Atlantic in a position that could mean potential trouble for us in the Southeast. Fortunately, this is quite a ways off, and many of the model solutions currently showing the storm as turning to the north before it…
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You might remember that Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas on July 8, bringing heavy rain, strong wind and damaging tornadoes to a wide swatch of the central US and into the Midwest and New England. One of the hardest hit places was Texas, not a surprise because it was the first place the storm…
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Over the course of the day, Hurricane Beryl went from a tropical storm to a major hurricane and then to a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 130 mph and an impressive eye. It is expected to maintain this strength for a few days before weakening as it hits some wind shear in the…
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As of 5 pm on Saturday, TS Beryl was upgraded to a hurricane by the National Hurricane Center. Beryl’s vertical structure is almost perfectly stacked with no wind shear and it is over an area with very warm ocean temperatures, so it is expected to become a major hurricane in the next couple of days…
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Here is some very timely information for farmers on what they need to do to prepare for a hurricane hit to their farms in advance of any threatening weather. It was published in the Florida Land Steward Newsletter this past Friday by Christopher Demers at the University of Florida. ————————————————————————– GET YOUR FARM RECORDS COMPLETED…
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The tropics have really picked up in activity in the past few days. The big system to watch right now is in the eastern Atlantic, moving WNW towards the Caribbean. This area of interest has a 90% chance of becoming a named storm in the next week. The model tracks show a very wide spread…
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