Tropical weather
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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.
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Last Friday it was not even a named storm. Today Sally is a tropical storm which is expected to become a hurricane on Monday and make landfall as a category 2 hurricane near New Orleans sometime on Tuesday morning. It is a slow mover, which means that it will pile up a lot of storm…
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With eyes watching TD 19 today as it moves slowly WNW into the Gulf and towards the northern shore, you should be aware that slow-moving hurricanes can often cause more damage than fast-moving storms. That is because the strong winds and heavy rains can last over an area for any hours, pounding the buildings with…
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Tropical Depression 19 is crossing over the southern tip of Florida this morning and is expected to continue in a WNW direction out into the Gulf of Mexico for the next several days. It should eventually become a tropical storm, most likely named Sally, and is currently expected to make landfall somewhere between Pensacola FL…