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The National Hurricane Center has declared that the area of interest they’ve been watching in the eastern Atlantic Ocean has a closed circulation by looking at satellite wind data. They have identified it as Tropical Depression 4. Models suggest that it will continue to strengthen during the day today and should become Tropical Storm Danny…
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Do you remember the summer of 2005? That was an incredibly active tropical year, with 27 named storms, including Katrina and Rita. The rain that the Southeast received from those storms as well as the regular summer thunderstorms helped keep the region out of drought conditions that year. Here’s a NOAA summary of that year.…
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The National Weather Service sent out a notice this week announcing the availability of JetStream, their free online course on the weather. You can access the course at https://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/. Here is how they describe the course: “Welcome to JetStream, the National Weather Service Online Weather School. This site is designed to help educators, emergency managers,…
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Once more, the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmers’ Almanac have hit the bookstores and checkout aisles in the supermarkets, ready to provide instant weather forecasts for the next year to anyone who is willing to pay the price. And the media always cover this event as if there is any skill at all in…
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As we head into what is usually the most active time of the year for tropical storms in the Atlantic basin, a wave that recently moved off the coast of Africa is now showing some signs of development. The National Hurricane Center’s 5-day tropical outlook map now shows a 60 percent chance of cyclone formation…
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Al Jazeera America had an interesting article about recent trends in the yields of coffee production in Tanzania. Farmers there have noticed a 50 percent decrease in yield over the last sixty years. Originally the yield loss was attributed to changes in rainfall, but a recent study by scientists at the International Institute of Tropical…
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Shane Curry, the author of the Appling County Crop E News, had an interesting article this week about the unfilled ears of corn they are seeing in some locations as they harvest their fields. It discusses the problems caused by high temperatures and low humidity associated with dry conditions that affected the corn plants this…