Tropical weather
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November 30 marks the end of the Atlantic Tropical Season, one of our biggest weather-makers in the summer months. This year was a strange one, with a long period of no activity at all from the beginning of July through a good part of August. In spite of that, however, we saw a lot of…
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In this blog I often write about the damage caused by tropical storm such as Irma, Michael, and Ian. But I don’t often see stories about how the affected farmers are recovering from their losses. Here is a Southeast Farm Press story about the Bahamas that makes me feel very good about the role that…
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Measuring the impacts of a single extreme weather event can be difficult. Extension agents in Florida have an even tougher job since they are assessing delayed impacts from a frost last spring plus both Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, some of which ran over the same area. If an area was already impacted by one event…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office just released a summary of the impacts of Tropical Storm Nicole on North Carolina. It can be viewed at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/11/rapid-reaction-late-season-nicole-offers-needed-rainfall/.
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Tonight Nicole became a hurricane as it crossed the warm water of the Gulf Stream. It is expected to stay as a hurricane as it makes landfall late tonight or early tomorrow and heads northwest over Florida. If you read this in the morning digest, it will probably already be well onshore. Then it will…
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During the day today, Nicole completed the transition to a Tropical Storm and as of 10 pm ET, is near hurricane force. It is not expected to strengthen much beyond that due to wind shear, even though it will be passing over the warm Gulf Stream soon. The general forecast path of the storm is…
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As of 5 AM this morning, the broad area of low pressure east of the Bahamas organized enough to become Subtropical Storm Nicole. Subtropical storms have some characteristics of tropical storms but also have some characteristics of mid-latitude low pressure areas. For our purposes, you can treat it as a tropical storm, and it should…
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