Tropical weather
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press has a story today about the impacts of Hermine on the pecan harvest in Georgia. The worst part of the state’s damage was in the lower southeast part of the state; fortunately, winds were less damaging in other areas, so the state’s total production will not be as…
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The preliminary damage reports of Hermine’s passage through the Southeast show that the majority of the damage was due to power outages and downed trees, with a few reports of isolated tornadoes. Online Athens reported that over 107,000 homes in Georgia and an estimated 325,000 people in Florida lost power during the storm’s passage but…
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Jeff Cook, the Ag Extension agent in Georgia’s Taylor and Peach Counties, wrote a fantastic piece in the Three Rivers Ag News blog about the impacts of Hermine’s rainfall on a variety of crops in middle Georgia. I am reposting it here in its entirety. If you are interested in seeing more of this blog,…
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The Climate Prediction Center issued their monthly outlook for September this week. It shows above normal temperatures are likely for the entire region in the coming month. Dry conditions are expected in northern Alabama and northwest Georgia but wet conditions are expected along the coast. No doubt the fact that this forecast was issued on…
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Apologies to those readers who are not in the Southeast–one last blog post on TS Hermine. The 11 pm outlook for Hermine shows that the storm has strengthened somewhat over the evening and is now expected to come ashore as a hurricane. The path has shifted ever so slightly to the east due to the latest…
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The 5 pm forecast from the National Hurricane Center shows a significant shift of the forecast cone to the west from earlier in the day. It puts the center of the track just southeast of Macon at 1 pm on Friday. The cone itself covers the southeastern 2/3 of Georgia, so anyone driving through that…
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The latest update from the National Hurricane Center on Tropical Depression 9 shows that with its slow movement and development, it has not yet begun to move towards the northeast. This means that the updated most likely path has now moved north and west of its position earlier today. Most of the southeastern half of…
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