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The latest monthly and seasonal summaries for the US were released by NOAA earlier this week. August 2021 was the 14th warmest August on record, and the summer months of June through August came out just slightly ahead of 1936 for the warmest summer since 1895. They reported that over 18 percent of the US…
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One of my favorite climatologists, Brian Brettschneider (@climatologist49 on Twitter) has provided a great set of two maps that show the last 12 months in historical context for the US. He compares the current 12-month period that just ended at the end of August to previous 12-month periods going back to 1895 to see how…
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By some measures, today is the day on which a named tropical storm is most likely to occur. Does that make it the peak of hurricane season? According to a recent blog post by Brian McNoldy, a Senior Research Associate at University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, it’s not quite so…
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At the recent annual meeting of the National Weather Association in August, Steve Nelson of the National Weather Service produced a poster that described some of the extreme wind events that have been measured by the University of Georgia’s mesonet of weather stations. You might be interested in viewing the 5-minute video–you can see it…
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If you were paying attention to the news today, you learned that Tropical Storm Mindy formed this afternoon over the eastern Gulf of Mexico and as of 11 pm on Wednesday, is moving along the Florida Panhandle towards the east at about 20 mph. It is expected to reach the southeast corner of Georgia by…
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In many hurricanes, a number of weak tornadoes form on the spiral bands ahead of the storm. It is much rarer to find really strong tornadoes associated with hurricanes. However, as the remains of Hurricane Ida moved into the Northeast and merged with a front, several strong tornadoes formed ahead of the system. One EF…
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As of Tuesday evening, the National Hurricane Center has identified a broad and disorganized area of tropical activity in the western Gulf of Mexico that they say has a 50-50 chance of developing into a tropical storm in the next two days. If it does happen, it will be somewhere along the northern Gulf Coast…