Tropical weather
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You might remember that Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas on July 8, bringing heavy rain, strong wind and damaging tornadoes to a wide swatch of the central US and into the Midwest and New England. One of the hardest hit places was Texas, not a surprise because it was the first place the storm…
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Over the course of the day, Hurricane Beryl went from a tropical storm to a major hurricane and then to a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 130 mph and an impressive eye. It is expected to maintain this strength for a few days before weakening as it hits some wind shear in the…
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As of 5 pm on Saturday, TS Beryl was upgraded to a hurricane by the National Hurricane Center. Beryl’s vertical structure is almost perfectly stacked with no wind shear and it is over an area with very warm ocean temperatures, so it is expected to become a major hurricane in the next couple of days…
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Here is some very timely information for farmers on what they need to do to prepare for a hurricane hit to their farms in advance of any threatening weather. It was published in the Florida Land Steward Newsletter this past Friday by Christopher Demers at the University of Florida. ————————————————————————– GET YOUR FARM RECORDS COMPLETED…
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The tropics have really picked up in activity in the past few days. The big system to watch right now is in the eastern Atlantic, moving WNW towards the Caribbean. This area of interest has a 90% chance of becoming a named storm in the next week. The model tracks show a very wide spread…
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I am sending this early on Thursday because I will be traveling this weekend and may not have access to the internet later this weekend. The latest tropical update has increased the chances of tropical development in the SW Atlantic to 40% over the next two days. Whether or not it gets named, we are…
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The latest tropical outlook from the National Hurricane Center shows Potential Tropical Cyclone 1 strengthening in the SW Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to continue to strengthen into TS Alberto before it makes landfall on Mexico. It won’t affect us in the Southeast but could bring a lot of rain to southern Texas. There…
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