-
The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the rain that is expected to fall this week will be located near the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, including all of Florida. Those areas could see several inches of rain. Not good news for the farmers in those areas, who are already battling soggy soil and…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
You may see the National Hurricane Center daily maps showing the likely areas of development for tropical storms and wonder how long it takes the storm to get close enough to the Southeast to worry about. This excellent map from Ed Piotrowski shows the average number of days it takes for a storm to get…
-
While the Atlantic tropics have been very quiet for the last two months, we are finally starting to see the possibility of some development of the waves that are now coming off of Africa. There are two areas of potential development in the Atlantic today, and while the potential of development in the next five…
-
With the rain that much of the region experienced this past week, most drought has been erased from the latest Drought Monitor map, released today. There are still only a few small patches in Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida, and those are likely to be gone soon. A few remnant areas of abnormally dry (D0)…
Posted in: Drought -
It’s been a remarkably quiet July and August this year, with no named tropical storms since the three that occurred early in the season. In fact, it’s one of the quietest tropical periods in the Atlantic basin since records began. But the models are starting to show a change in the pattern as the Saharan…
-
In past blog posts we have looked at extreme heat and how it is endangering farm workers and others who work outside. Earlier this week, Yahoo News posted a story about the toll that heat waves and very high temperatures are taking on delivery truck drivers, who have to go in and out of hot…
-
Those of you who are older might remember the terrible storm that hit Miami (and later, Louisiana) 30 years ago this week, Hurricane Andrew. There have been a lot of interesting retrospective stories in the news about it. Here is a NOAA story with several links to interviews with National Hurricane Center forecasters and others…