Tropical weather
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The National Hurricane Conference is online this week Monday through Thursday. There are a bunch of talks discussing evacuation plans and successes, the outlook for the 2020 season, how to communicate about flood insurance and evacuation plans, and how to prepare your community for hurricane season. You can see the full list at https://hurricanemeeting.com/virtual-session-agenda/. If…
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Today is the first day of the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. You are sure to see lots of information on Facebook, Twitter and other sources. I will be retweeting and sharing some of that from my social media accounts. One resource I want to mention is the new South Carolina 2020 Hurricane…
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Today is the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. We’ve already had two named storms this year, and it looks highly likely that a third will develop in the Bay of Campeche in the next five days as the remnants of Eastern Pacific TS Amanda regroup there. It is expected to be designated as…
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We’ve had an early start to the 2020 Atlantic tropical season, with two named storms before the season even officially started. There is a 50 percent chance of a third storm developing in the Atlantic in the next 48 hours. This has never happened before in the records we have for hurricanes going back to…
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While folks in the Southeast watch the end of TS Bertha and look ahead to the impending Atlantic tropical season, tropical cyclones have already been causing misery in other parts of the world. Last Wednesday Super Cyclone Amphan (a category 5 storm) moved north from the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the coasts…
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In a surprise to many meteorologists, Tropical Storm Bertha formed just off the coast of South Carolina as it was coming onshore. Overnight last night the National Hurricane Center said that it had only a 30 percent chance of development, but by 7:30 Wednesday morning it was bumped up to 70 percent, and by 8:30…
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It rained here in Georgia today. Not that unusual except that the rain came in from the southeast, which is not what we usually expect. The culprit is a tropical system, not organized enough to be named but carrying plenty of moisture with it, that has been drenching the Miami area today. (You can see…