Tropical weather
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The New York Times ran an interesting article yesterday by a woman who lived through the direct passage of Hurricane Andrew west of Miami. If you wondered what being in the direct path of an extreme storm was like, you will be interested in reading this. You can find it at https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/hurricane-matthew-andrew-florida.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share. I visited Miami ten…
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Here is a nice story map of Hurricane Matthew impacts put together by John Feldt of Blue Water Outlook. It collects a number of different maps which shows the weather conditions surrounding Matthew into one web site. You can see it at https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=703503d411274bee9285b5fac5ff70e9.
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As Matthew approaches the coast, you might be wondering how the storm compares to past hurricanes in the area. CNN published an article today which described some of the previous hurricanes which moved through the same region and how they compare. You can read it at https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/us/hurricane-matthew-comparisons/index.html. Needless to say, Matthew is far surpassing the strength…
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With apologies to the readers who are not in the Southeast, another Matthew article. This one is from the Capital Weather Gang and lists all of the records that Matthew has broken so far in its life or may be about to break in the next few days. And today (Thursday the 6th) marks…
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Rather than write an update about Matthew myself, I am going to defer to the exhaustive discussion on Matthew provided by Jeff Masters in the Weather Underground blog here. Needless to say, this is probably going to be one of the defining weather moments of 2016 and for some people, for their lifetimes. One of…
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The USDA has issued a press release on Hurricane Matthew and its potential impacts on agriculture in the Southeast as well as resources that might be useful to producers. I have reproduced it below but you can also read it at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAOC/bulletins/1695705. USDA Prepares for Hurricane Matthew USDA Office of Communications sent this bulletin at 10/05/2016…
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All eyes among my meteorologist friends as well as many others are on the tropics as Hurricane Matthew moves north through the Bahamas today headed towards the Southeast. If you live within 100 miles of the coast, I hope you have made preparations for the storm, which is likely to be the worst that most…