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Elsa has restrengthened back to a hurricane after weakening earlier this weekend. It is now headed for the Cedar Key area in the Big Bend region of the northwest Florida Coast. I was interested to read from Brian McNulty, one of the hurricane specialists I follow, that “the last time a hurricane made landfall within…
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Growing conditions overall for the Southeast have been relatively good so far this year. Since April 1, most of the Southeast has been a little cooler than normal, except for the Florida Peninsula. Rainfall, as usual, has been variable, but generally most areas in Alabama, southern Georgia, and northern Florida have been fairly wet, although…
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I was on a Zoom call earlier this week when one of the participants in Washington D. C. abruptly excused himself, saying that they were under a tornado warning and he was headed for shelter. The tornado passed through the region of Arlington and the National Mall while he and his partner watched from their…
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As of 11 pm on Monday July 5, 2021, Tropical Storm Elsa has crossed Cuba and is now over the ocean again. It has lost a little strength over the Cuban mountains but is expected to regain some of it, although the prediction is that it will not regain hurricane strength in the time it…
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I love to visit the Georgia coast and see the coastal marshes. Here is an interesting 5-minute video story about a Georgia clam farmer and the changes he has seen in the marshes over his career as a fisherman. He reminds people that whatever they are putting into their drains in Atlanta or into the…
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I ran across this tidbit of information on Facebook today, posted by my husband John Knox, who is also a meteorologist. It discusses the 1967 prediction of global warming by Manabe and Wetherald, in a time period when the earth was slowly cooling. You probably don’t know their names, but they were well-known in atmospheric…
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If you thought that we were the warmest in our Northern Hemisphere summer because the Earth is closest to the sun then, you are in good company with Harvard students (according to a videotaped survey my husband uses in his intro meteorology class) but scientifically wrong. Today is actually Aphelion, the day when the Earth…