Tropical weather
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While residents of southwest Florida as well as the Carolinas are currently still picking up from the incredible destruction of Hurricane Ian, and Puerto Ricans are dealing with power losses and damage from massive flooding that fell during Hurricane Fiona, extension agents and farmers are starting to assess the toll that the wind and rain…
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The latest 5-day outlook from the National Hurricane Center shows two areas of potential development in the Atlantic this week. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, neither one shows any signs of heading towards us. The western investigation looks like it will continue west into Central America, and the eastern one shows that it will…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released a Rapid Reaction report on Hurricane Ian and its impacts on their state. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/10/rapid-reaction-windy-wet-ian-sweeps-through-north-carolina/. Rainfall from the storm is shown below.
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If you are interested in looking at “after” images of coastal areas after Hurricane Ian’s passage to see what damage occurred at particular properties, you can go here to view images taken from NOAA aircraft. By zooming in and out you can focus on particular locations. There should be imagery available for multiple coastal areas,…
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The rejuvenated Hurricane Ian finished crossing the Atlantic and made a third landfall (after Cuba and Florida) this afternoon as a category-1 storm. Landfall occurred near Georgetown, just up the coast from Charleston. The storm is still moving through the Carolinas now as a post-tropical storm, since it has lost its tropical characteristics as a…
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During the day today, Tropical Storm Ian (downgraded from a category 4 hurricane to a TS as it crossed Florida earlier overnight) completed its crossing of the Florida peninsula and emerged over the Atlantic Ocean just north of Cape Canaveral earlier today. It regained hurricane strength over the warm Gulf Stream and is currently headed…
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Over the course of the day, Hurricane Ian continued to move northeast towards the west coast of Florida, strengthening as it approached the coast. At around 3 pm EDT it made landfall near Fort Myers with winds speeds of over 150 mph, just a few mph short of a category 5 hurricane. The images I…
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