Tropical weather
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Tropical Storm Eta is currently located just off the northwest corner of Cuba and is expected to make its way slowly north over the rest of this week. The current forecast shows that it is likely to make landfall somewhere between Apalachicola and Tampa, FL on Thursday night into Friday morning. Tropical storm force winds…
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Here’s a recent article on the impacts of the current La Niña on the hurricane season, which is still chugging along, and on winter conditions that could affect next year’s growing season conditions. It is by my friend and colleague Bob Kemerait of UGA Extension and was published today in Farm Press. The expected strong…
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As of 11 pm EST, Tropical Storm Eta is located near the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, hammering southern Florida with heavy rain and gusty winds. It is moving westward and is expected to move past the Keys and into the eastern Gulf by Tuesday morning. It could become a weak hurricane. At that…
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Currently Eta is a tropical depression located over Honduras, where it is dropping torrential amounts of rain after coming onshore in Nicaragua as a major hurricane. But this may be just the beginning of Eta’s journey. The National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting Eta to move to the northeast back over the Caribbean Sea, where…
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While we are watching Eta move towards Central America, our farmers in parts of the Southeast are beginning the process of recovering from Hurricane Zeta, which moved through here just a few days ago. I know people in NE Georgia who were without power for 5 days after Zeta moved through (I was only out…
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This morning Eta was just a tropical storm. As of 10 pm tonight, Eta is a major hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph and getting stronger. It is moving slowly west and is expected to hit the Nicaraguan coast sometime Tuesday morning, with incredible winds, storm surge of up to 18 feet, and torrential…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center posted a graphic this morning showing that of the 28 named storms in the Atlantic Basin this year, ten affected the Southeast. But only one of those, Sally, produced widespread river flooding, which is lower than some previous years. Of course, the season is not over yet,…