Tropical weather
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If you and your farm have been impacted by hurricanes in 2024, you may still be working on applying for disaster assistance. Fortunately, FEMA has extended the deadline for applying for assistance to February 7, 2025. You can find more information from WGXA here or directly from FEMA at https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250108/georgians-have-one-month-left-apply-fema-assistance-deadline. Clint Thompson noted in Specialty…
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While many impacts of Debby, Helene, Milton, and other tropical systems have already been documented by extension agents, media, and insurers, more impacts are still being identified. Here are a couple of stories that describe some new impacts I have not seen before. Helene Impact: Georgia Vidalia Onion Farmers Suffered Plant Loss Disappointing Output: Georgia…
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Growing Produce recently published a summary of the 2024 Atlantic Tropical Season. It provides a table that lists the original forecasts from several different groups and compares them to the total number of named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes. All of them did quite well. The article also describes some of the impacts of the…
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Over the course of the day Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 formed and gradually organized into Tropical Storm Sara. Sara is predicted to move west over Honduras, where it could drop 20 or more inches as it crawls slowly westward into the Yucatan Peninsula and then swings northwest as a weakened storm into the Gulf. A…
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The Atlantic tropical season is not over just yet. The National Hurricane Center has identified another area with a 90% chance of development in the next week in the western Caribbean Sea where tropical cyclones typically develop in late fall. If it develops as expected, it would be called Sara. The storm is expected to…
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Hurricane Rafael has crossed over western Cuba and entered the Gulf of Mexico, but is tracking westward across the Gulf into areas that are less favorable for supporting the storm. Rafael is not expected to affect us in the Southeast other than its push of moisture into the region associated with this week’s heavy rainfall.…
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The long-lasting area of interest in the western Caribbean has finally developed into Tropical Storm Rafael. It is expected to continue to develop slowly and may become a hurricane in the next day as it approaches the Cayman Islands and western Cuba. After that, it is expected to move NW into the Gulf of Mexico,…
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