Tropical weather
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Reports of impacts of Sally on agriculture in the Southeast continue to come in. While the rain from Sally was mostly beneficial in Georgia, softening soils ahead of peanut digging and providing moisture to dry pastures, it caused more damage in coastal Florida where extreme winds and rain devastated farm fields there. Here are a…
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The latest map from the Atlantic Ocean shows several tropical centers of activity. Wilfred has declined to a tropical depression and should not be a threat to anyone. Alpha (off the map to the east) made landfall in Portugal, bringing rain to that region. Hurricane Teddy is still a category 2 hurricane and is moving…
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As of Wednesday night, Sally has weakened to a depression and is slowly moving off to the northeast. It will continue to move through Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, dropping rain that could be as much as 10 inches in some places as it continues to move to the northeast at an…
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A recent Farm Press article gives a good description of how Hurricane Sally is expected to affect crops in Alabama. Cotton and pecans are the most likely to be affected because they are still a month from harvest and need good conditions to reach harvest successfully. The heavy rain and winds are likely to cause…
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As of 11 pm Tuesday night, Hurricane Sally is creeping north towards the east side of Mobile Bay in Alabama. It is expected to make landfall over the next few hours, but timing is tough when it is only moving at 2 mph. The slow movement is piling up water to the east of the…
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Rains of over 15 inches could occur in southern Alabama as slow-moving Hurricane Sally moves onshore, most likely early Wednesday near the MS-AL border. A wide band of rainfall of 6-10 inches is currently predicted to stretch north through central Alabama and on into northern Georgia, the South Carolina highlands, and parts of western North…
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Two years ago today, Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina. It was a very slow-moving storm and dropped a tremendous amount of rainfall on coastal North Carolina. The North Carolina Climate Office released a 2-year retrospective today which summarizes the storm, including the wind, surge and rainfall. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=324&h=5666e5c1.