Tropical Storm Gordon came onshore along the Gulf Coast on September 4. According to a report from the Vegetable and Specialty Crop News, the high winds and heavy rain caused a lot of damage to pecan trees and dropped many nuts right before harvest (similar to what happened to Georgia…
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Here is advice for grape growers in North Carolina from NCSU Extension. Short answer: if your grapes are near harvest, bring them in now! Note that the discussion is good but that the information is already somewhat dated with a western trend in the projected path which makes northern Georgia…
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The day before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach because I knew how bad it was likely to be. While the winds were not that strong when it made landfall, the huge storm surge and the loss of the…
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I sent out this email to my Extension colleagues in Georgia at noon today. Still valid as of 9 pm tonight. Key points: The current forecast path of Hurricane Florence reduces but does not eliminate the direct impacts of the storm on Georgia, including high winds, storm surge, and heavy…
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The latest monthly outlooks from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center for September 2018 shows that warmer and wetter than usual conditions are expected again this month. Nighttime temperatures are likely to be more above normal than daytime temperatures due to the cloud cover associated with the rainstorms, although there should be…
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Thirteen years ago today, Hurricane Katrina came onshore in eastern Louisiana. While the winds were down to 75-80 mph, the storm surge was massive, in some places higher than 28 feet, and wiped out blocks along the coastline stretching from the Florida Panhandle well across most of Louisiana. Two days…
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Thirteen years ago today, Major Hurricane Katrina was barreling north towards the Gulf Coast as a category 5 storm. Robert Ricks of the National Weather Service put out one of the most chilling weather forecasts that I and my husband (also a meteorologist) had ever seen. Sadly, some people and…
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