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If you are interested in hearing more about the impacts of Hurricane Helene on western North Carolina, you may be interested in watching this 80-minute long documentary discussing what led up to the flooding from Helene and the aftermath of the heavy rain, wind, and flooding on communities there. It spends some time at the…
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Last week NOAA’s National Hurricane Center released the final report for Hurricane Helene. The report includes descriptions of the storm’s lifetime, including how it formed and where it went. There is a long section on weather records from the storm as well as a state-by-state description of the impacts from the storm and some representative…
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Earlier this week NOAA released their predictions for what the spring climate will be like. They are calling for dry conditions in the western US and warmer conditions over much of the continental US this spring. This could lead to the expansion of drought there as there is not likely to be enough precipitation to…
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While June 1 seems like a long time from now, spring will pass quickly, so it is time to start thinking about hurricane planning. I am sure that by now you all have your inventories and hurricane evacuation plans in place or will soon! Here are some recent stories about the upcoming hurricane season and…
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If you think it has been cold in the Southeast this year, you might be interested in this story about the coldest cities in the world as posted in the Daily Passport: https://dailypassport.com/where-are-the-worlds-coldest-cities/. The temperatures at each of these cities is much colder than anything we experience in our region, but that does not stop…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released last Thursday, shows that a lot of the region improved its drought status in this past week due to a strong system that brought rain to northern Alabama, northwest Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and parts of the Carolinas. The only small areas where drought got worse were along the southeast…
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This time of year I get a lot of questions about how this year’s weather is affected by changes in the climate over time. Here is an interesting article from Time magazine that describes the kinds of changes we expect to see across the United States. Since I am from Western Michigan, I was interested…
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