Tropical weather
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As the tropical season progresses, the State Climate Office of North Carolina continues its series of blog posts about historical storms that made big impacts in the past. Here are three new stories about Hurricane Floyd. Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Floyd made landfall in eastern North Carolina, ending several days of rain and beginning…
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Hurricanes and tropical storms can remake coastlines. This is one reason that we evacuate people from vulnerable coastal areas even when storms stay out to sea. Here is a set of before and after images of the North Carolina coast before and after Hurricane Dorian approached the area. In some places the effects are subtle,…
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A Potential Tropical Cyclone notification has been issued by the National Hurricane Center for the likely development of a tropical storm (most likely named Humberto, the next name on the list) in the next day or two. The models have been all over the place with this because it has been such a disorganized system,…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is continuing its blog series of posts on memorable hurricanes this week with their latest post on Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd n 1999. While Dennis was not a strong storm, it did drop a lot of rain that later helped amplify the destruction of Floyd about 12 days…
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September 10 is the peak of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, which means that historically today is the day that has had the highest number of tropical storms and hurricanes. And while we have no active storms now, there are three areas that are under watch by the National Hurricane Center. The two in…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released an early summary of the impacts of Hurricane Dorian on the coast of North Carolina. Obviously, the impacts are not over yet as roads on the barrier islands are washed out and some people are still trapped in the Ocracoke region, but this is a rapid look…
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If you want a good example in story form about how hurricane forecasts have improved over time, you may be interested in this article on Medium.com by my husband (also a meteorologist) Dr. John Knox, who experienced his first hurricane before he was born when his pregnant mom encountered Hurricane Cleo in Miami in 1964.…