Tropical weather
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There have been a lot of stories about climate in the news this week. Here are a sprinkling of the most interesting ones. Science: Butterflies are vanishing in the western U.S.—but not for the reasons scientists thought CBS News: Humans, not nature, may be changing Atlantic hurricane cycles Yale Climate Connections: U.S. dams, levees get…
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On Twitter today, I found a reference to an interesting set of National Weather Service reports that describe past extreme weather events, including a number in the Southeast such as large hurricane events like Michael and Katrina and tornado outbreaks such as the major outbreak of 2011. These reports are geared toward both describing the…
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New research published in the journal Science shows that in recent years, hurricanes are strengthening closer to land now than in the 1980s when their data set began. They are also forming farther north and west than they used to, possibly due to the expansion of the tropics under a warmer climate, although it could…
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Citrus has a long history in Louisiana, where warm temperatures have produced a great area for the growth of citrus trees, especially near the Gulf Coast. But that location is bad for hurricanes, and in recent years citrus farmers have been repeatedly pummeled by the direct effects of the wind as well as the indirect…
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In this busy hurricane season, it has been hard to keep track of all the land-falling storms, especially those outside of the Southeast. But two of the most devastating came onshore only a few miles apart, and each caused tremendous damage through winds, flooding rain, and landslides. The two storms, Eta and Iota, have caused…
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If you drive through southeast Alabama or southwest Georgia, you can still see plenty of damage from Hurricane Michael, which hit there in 2018. Researchers with Auburn University’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences are currently working on a “Downed Timber Initiative,” which aims to develop new methods of using fallen trees and branches decimated…
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Today marks the official end of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. But even as we speak, there is an area of interest in the eastern Atlantic that has a 40 percent chance of developing into a subtropical storm, although it won’t affect the Southeast. This has been an amazing and frustrating year for tropical weather…