Tropical weather

  • Jeff Masters and Bob Henson have a comprehensive write-up of the impacts of Matthew on the Southeast at their blog post on the WunderBlog here.  Matthew finally made landfall south of Myrtle Beach today and is now moving slowly northeast with a large shield of rain north and east of the center.

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  • Here are a selection of the amazing images I’ve seen today from Matthew.  This doesn’t even count all of the videos of water surging through Daytona and Jacksonville and the spectacular data from Matthew passing over ocean weather buoys. Birds in the eye of Matthew.  Click here for the animated version. A variety of still…

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  • Even though Matthew has a long way to go before it leaves the Southeast, I thought I would share some stories I’ve seen on initial impacts on agriculture.  Of course, there will be a lot more information once the storm is gone and folks have time to do their assessments. AgWeb reported here that cotton…

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  • The New York Times ran an interesting article yesterday by a woman who lived through the direct passage of Hurricane Andrew west of Miami.  If you wondered what being in the direct path of an extreme storm was like, you will be interested in reading this.  You can find it at https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/hurricane-matthew-andrew-florida.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share.  I visited Miami ten…

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  • Here is a nice story map of Hurricane Matthew impacts put together by John Feldt of Blue Water Outlook.  It collects a number of different maps which shows the weather conditions surrounding Matthew into one web site.  You can see it at https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=703503d411274bee9285b5fac5ff70e9.

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  • As Matthew approaches the coast, you might be wondering how the storm compares to past hurricanes in the area.  CNN published an article today which described some of the previous hurricanes which moved through the same region and how they compare.  You can read it at https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/us/hurricane-matthew-comparisons/index.html.  Needless to say, Matthew is far surpassing the strength…

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  • With apologies to the readers who are not in the Southeast, another Matthew article.  This one is from the Capital Weather Gang and lists all of the records that Matthew has broken so far in its life or may be about to break in the next few days.    And today (Thursday the 6th) marks…

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