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Are you one of the people who is sensitive to changes in weather conditions? I have many friends who say they can feel changes in the weather by their level of pain or stiffness in their joints. Others say that they are more likely to get migraine headaches under certain weather conditions. This recent article…
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The latest monthly outlook for October 2022, updated at the end of September, shows that after a cold start to the month, temperatures are expected to warm back up and bring most of the region close to normal for the month as a whole, and some areas may see above normal temperatures overall. Precipitation is…
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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…