Tropical weather
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Impacts from one bad weather event can often carry over into later growing seasons. For example, a flood can disturb the natural soil profiles and pull nutrients from the soil. Wind events like hurricanes can take multiple years to recover from, both in rebuilding infrastructure and in replanting crops and orchards. For example, corn from…
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Today Climate.gov posted a Science Brief on recent research findings about the trends in tropical storm activity due to warming ocean temperatures associated with the changing climate. They describe how cyclone intensity has been measured and how it is increasing. They also describe likely changes in the tropical atmospheric conditions in the future and how…
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As we approach the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, you might be interested in a couple of news items. One is that the National Hurricane Center is debating whether they should start the season on May 15 instead of June 1 due to the number of early storms that have occurred in the past…
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The latest ENSO outlook was released today. It shows that La Nina is still hanging on now, but that neutral conditions are expected to return later this spring and last through summer. The current forecast for next fall and winter is for La Nina to return in a “double dip”, which happens fairly frequently with…
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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…