Tropical weather
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Hurricane Ian caused an estimated $1 billion in agricultural-production losses, with the biggest hits to the citrus industry, along with growers of vegetables and melons, according to a new University of Florida report that was discussed in Southeast Ag Net last week. This does not include damage to buildings or to downed trees, since it…
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Here is an interesting presentation in the form of a storymap showing the impacts of Hurricane Ian on South Florida. It was put together by the NWS office in Miami. Since South Florida was to the right of the track, they received some of the worst impacts from the storm. You might enjoy their analysis…
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Just when you think the tropical season is done, we get one last hiccup. The National Hurricane Center posted a 5-day outlook that includes a potential area of development in the central Atlantic with a 50 percent chance of becoming a named storm. This would likely be a subtropical storm, not a true tropical storm,…
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Aarohi Sheth of Currently newsletter reported that “The world’s insurance bill from extreme weather events and climate disasters this year is $115 billion — 42 percent higher than the 10-year average of $81 billion, according to Swiss Re, a Zurich-based reinsurance giant.“ The story also noted that the firm estimates that Hurricane Ian, the Category 4…
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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…