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The Weather Channel posted an interesting short video about the life cycle of a hurricane to explain how hurricanes develop from tropical waves and grow into full-fledged strong storms. Very timely considering how we have watched Erin grow from a weak wave to a category 5 storm in just a few days. Erin is now…
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The rainfall on this week’s 7-day QPF map is dominated by rainfall from Hurricane Erin as it moves north past the East Coast. It won’t be close enough to cause much rain on the mainland, but if you are at the beach you will see very high surf and a chance of rip currents, so…
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Here is a recent story from Citrus Industry that discusses the impacts that high temperature and humidity can have on farmer workers. This year has been particularly humid because of all the rain we have been having across the Southeast, so workers have really been affected by it. If you work outside, make sure you…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released last Thursday, shows an area of moderate (D1) drought appearing in southern Puerto Rico. However, the rain this weekend with Hurricane Erin brought a lot of water to the territory, and I would not be surprised to see the drought disappear in next week’s map. In the mainland Southeast, most…
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After Invest 97 formed over the weekend, it developed into Tropical Storm Erin on Monday, August 14, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is currently moving over a relatively cool ocean and is interacting with some Saharan dust but it is expected to move over more favorable conditions in the next few days and is…
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My UGA colleague Bob Kemerait and several others all asked me why it was so cold and rainy in Georgia earlier in August. Here is what I wrote him: I have attached thermographs of Athens and Albany temps below (the Tifton NWS station is missing most of August so far). The first part of summer…
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NOAA released their global climate summary for July 2025 earlier this week. It shows that for the whole Earth, this was the third warmest July since records began in 1880. For the year to date, it was the second warmest on record, after 2024. You can read more details at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202507.
Posted in: Climate summaries