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The latest 5-day outlook from the National Hurricane Center shows two areas of potential development in the Atlantic this week. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, neither one shows any signs of heading towards us. The western investigation looks like it will continue west into Central America, and the eastern one shows that it will…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released a Rapid Reaction report on Hurricane Ian and its impacts on their state. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/10/rapid-reaction-windy-wet-ian-sweeps-through-north-carolina/. Rainfall from the storm is shown below.
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If you are interested in looking at “after” images of coastal areas after Hurricane Ian’s passage to see what damage occurred at particular properties, you can go here to view images taken from NOAA aircraft. By zooming in and out you can focus on particular locations. There should be imagery available for multiple coastal areas,…
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Water supplies in the Middle East can be highly variable and at times hard to come by. Lebanese farmers have used novel methods for collecting rainwater to help supplement irrigation water for crop production. But in recent years, rainfall has gotten more scarce, leading to difficulty in maintaining their crops with a dwindling water supply.…
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While we don’t know the status of the orange crop in Florida yet, prior to the storm making landfall speculators were concerned about a significant hit to the citrus crop from the storm, according to this article in Bloomberg (may be paywalled). Growers are already under stress due to citrus greening, and some were not…
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The remains of Hurricane Ian are still affecting North Carolina and Virginia, but once they move off to the east, the region will be completely dry, with a cool high pressure area parked over us. This will be good for farmers who are trying to get back into their fields and need drier conditions to…
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The rejuvenated Hurricane Ian finished crossing the Atlantic and made a third landfall (after Cuba and Florida) this afternoon as a category-1 storm. Landfall occurred near Georgetown, just up the coast from Charleston. The storm is still moving through the Carolinas now as a post-tropical storm, since it has lost its tropical characteristics as a…
Posted in: Tropical weather