Tropical weather
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Here’s an interesting story from WFLA in Florida on the potential impact of Hurricane Irma on the next wildfire season in the Southeast. As you know, Irma downed many trees and dropped leaves across the region as it passed last fall. Now these stressed and dying trees and excess storm debris on the ground could…
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While 2017 was a very active year for the Southeast in terms of hurricane impacts, it was actually a year with very few Category 5 storms globally, according to a Weather Underground article earlier this year by Dr. Jeff Masters. Two of the three Cat 5 storms were Irma and Maria, both of which affected…
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Impacts from Hurricane Irma continue to affect the citrus crop in Florida. The Packer reported this week that the latest estimate of yield from this year’s citrus crop is down 8% from the November estimate. This is attributed to continuing losses from damaged citrus trees that were affected by wind and standing water from Hurricane…
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The Tampa Bay Times reported this week that losses due to the destruction of Hurricane Irma on Florida agriculture are increasing as the harvest advances. The biggest loser may be the citrus industry, which continues to see more losses as damage to the fruit from the winds comes to light. The losses to citrus alone…
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If you’ve never heard the term ‘medicane’ then you are not alone. A rare tropical storm is forming in the Mediterranean Sea and is already causing big impacts on Greece, including torrential flooding. Very few of these storms, dubbed ‘medicanes” has ever been seen because the ocean temperatures and atmospheric dynamics there are not usually…
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Here is a very cool video showing the atmospheric loading by dust, smoke, sea salt, and other aerosol tracers over the 2017 hurricane season. It’s amazing to watch the dance of different aerosol types and see the hurricanes develop and move over the Atlantic Ocean as the season progresses. The smoke coming off the western…
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Pecans are one of the most valuable crops grown in the Southeast, and the impacts of Hurricane Irma hit pecan growers pretty hard this year, with about 30% of the nuts blown off the trees in the storm. Trees were also blown over or dropped limbs and may need to be replaced. Vegetable and Specialty…