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Idalia comes ashore as a high-end Category 3 storm, brings heavy rain and strong winds to the region
Tonight Tropical Storm Idalia is moving NE close to Charleston. It came ashore just before 8 am this morning near Cedar Key in the Big Bend of Florida as a high-end category 3 storm after briefly reaching Category 4 before it weakened as it started an eyewall replacement cycle just before landfall. Predictions of the…
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As of 11 pm, Idalia has strengthened to just under a Category 3 storm with winds of 110 mph and a small eye and is expected to continue to strengthen overnight before it makes landfall in Florida tomorrow morning. The forecasts have been shifting slightly west all day, and observers are watching carefully on Tuesday…
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If you are a small farmer, you are very susceptible to the impacts of extreme weather events like droughts, floods, heat waves, and freezes. Small farmers often have fewer resources and savings to carry them over a bad year than a larger farm operation, so without government and private loans many would have to stop…
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Over the course of the day, Idalia become much better organized and strengthened a lot compared to yesterday’s status. It is expected to become a hurricane soon. Additional measurements and computer models have allowed the National Hurricane Center to tighten up the forecast cone predicting where Idalia will go and how strong it will get.…
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Fast Company has an interesting story about cows in Puerto Rico that have a natural mutation that allows the cattle to thrive in hotter conditions than other conventional varieties of cattle. This might allow producers to grow cattle in areas that in the future will be too hot for cattle to do well. The mutation…
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Early Sunday morning, Tropical Depression 10 became Tropical Storm Idalia. Today, the storm wobbled south and did not show much sign of organizing, but in the last couple of hours on Sunday that has started to change, and the circulation is starting to look more robust. This is a sign that the storm is likely…
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I’ve done a lot of interviews on the loss of Georgia’s peach crop this year due to a warm winter followed by two March frosts after the trees bloomed early. So I was interested to read this story in Growing Produce about the significant losses of their peaches too due to the winter weather this…