Tropical weather
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Politico has an interesting story this week about how many people in southwestern Florida have been priced out of rebuilding their homes lost to Hurricane Ian last year. The regulations in Florida require that if a house is destroyed, it has to be rebuilt to current safety standards, which is often much more expensive than…
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Earlier this weekend Subtropical Storm Don formed in the central Atlantic far from land and between Bermuda and the Azores. Don is not expected to make landfall but will slowly curve around. It will decrease to a depression but could slightlu restrengthen to a storm again later this week.
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Anyone who is worried about the potential for rapid development of tropical storms coming onshore in the Southeast should be very concerned about the current incredibly high sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico this week. The map below shows that parts of the Gulf have temperatures above 90 F (32 C in this…
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CSU released its third forecast for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season on Thursday, 6 July. In it,they increased the expected number of storms and now call for an above-average Atlantic basin hurricane season in 2023, although they noted that uncertainty with this outlook is larger than normal. From their press release: While we continue to…
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UPDATE: Link to video and slides now available at https://www.drought.gov/webinars/southeast-climate-monthly-webinar-june-27-2023. Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the…
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You probably have not heard much about the two tropical systems in the Atlantic over the last few days. I took a look tonight and found that as of this afternoon Bret had disintegrated and was no longer considered a tropical depression. At the moment the remains are drifting south but there is some chance…
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The latest prediction for TS Bret is that it is expected to continue to move east and is no longer expected to reach hurricane status due to strong wind shear that is already tilting the circulation and weakening it. Most likely it will fizzle somewhere over the Caribbean but could bring some heavy rain and…
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