Tropical weather
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Vegetable Growers News reported this week that many vegetable growers in Florida were not insured and will face significant losses from Hurricane Irma, including plants that were already in the ground as well as plastic sheeting used to prepare strawberry fields for the upcoming season. USDA reported in a study earlier this year that only…
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The Weather Channel posted a set of photos taken of farm destruction from Hurricanes Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida and the Southeast. Not many photos have made it out of Puerto Rico yet but the few I have seen show almost total devastation of the crops there from Hurricane Maria, along with the…
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The National Weather Service offices in Atlanta GA and Charleston SC have published short reports on the impacts of Hurricane Irma on their forecast areas. You can read the Charleston one at https://www.weather.gov/chs/TropicalStormIrma-Sep2017 and the Atlanta one at https://www.weather.gov/ffc/2017_Irma.
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Business Insider has a very good article describing the reason why this Atlantic tropical season has been so active and what it might mean for the rest of this season. The story looks at the lack of wind shear aloft which can “blow the top off” of developing storms, and the unusually warm ocean water…
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According to a press release from the Georgia Department of Insurance, property losses from insured homes and businesses due to Hurricane Irma is now greater than $300 million, based on over 50,000 claims that were submitted so far. The estimate to date is $336 million in total, according to the press release, which you can…
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma did quite a bit of damage to cotton in the South. According to Growing Georgia here, cotton growers in Georgia sustained at least $100 million in damage from Irma, resulting in at least a 10 percent loss due to the storm, although amounts could go higher once the final tallies are…
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Puerto Rico experienced the destruction of not one but two tropical storms so far this season. First, Tropical Storm Irma gave a glancing blow to the territory as it traveled north of the island, providing winds and flooding rain to the area. Then came the direct and far more devastating blow from Hurricane Maria, which…