Tropical weather
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With the Atlantic already heating up and the first tropical wave seen moving near the Southeast, it is time to get serious about preparing for the next hurricane season. It starts officially on June 1, but we often see some activity before then, so now is the time! This coming week is National Hurricane Preparedness…
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The National Hurricane Center released the last report of the 2018 season, covering Hurricane Florence. Florence caused tremendous damage to North and South Carolina due to heavy rain from the slow-moving system, which caused massive flooding and 22 direct and 30 indirect deaths from the storm. The damage was estimated at $24 billion. You can…
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Even though the tropical season in the Atlantic Basin is still a month away, the National Hurricane Center issued their first outlook of the year today for a wave which has a 20% chance of developing into a tropical storm over southern Florida in the next five days. Even though this is not likely to…
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Earlier today I posted about the newly released final report on Hurricane Michael from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center. You can find the link to the report in an earlier blog post today. Here is an interesting article from Bob Henson at Weather Underground which looks into the details of the report, including how the NHC…
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NOAA’s National Hurricane Center released their official report on Hurricane Michael today. It officially notes that Michael was a Category 5 storm. The report includes a number of observations from the University of Georgia weather network as well as many other sensor networks. You can read it at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142018_Michael.pdf.
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Here is a very interesting story in Gizmodo Earther about the decline of a rare conifer called Torreya Taxifolia, which is found in only a few isolated spots in the Florida panhandle and southwest Georgia. These trees are remnants of the last Ice Age forest, when many tree species were pushed south by the combination of…
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In this recent story from the Panama City News-Herald, continuing impacts from Hurricane Michael are discussed. They include an increased chance of bad wildfires due to all of the tree debris in the Florida panhandle, flooding from both damming of streams by large trees and the lack of trees to soak up rain water, and…