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UPDATE: This is now TS Elsa. The National Hurricane Center has started to send out alerts for Potential Tropical Cyclone 5, which is out in the Atlantic Ocean and has a 90 percent chance of becoming a named storm in the next five days. The model runs are all over the place, with potential landfalls…
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The latest outlook for July 2021, released today, shows that for most of the Southeast, temperatures are leaning towards cooler than normal conditions. The exceptions are the southern half of the Florida Peninsula and the east coast of North Carolina and Virginia. Most of the region is also expected to be wetter than normal in…
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On today’s date 113 years ago, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history struck on a warm summer morning in Siberia, Russia. We observe Asteroid Day each year on June 30, on the anniversary of what’s now known as the Tunguska explosion. This explosion flattened roughly 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in a remote part…
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The extremely high temperatures out west in recent days have had a number of consequences. One you might not have thought of is the impact on air travel. Airplanes have trouble taking off if the air is too hot because the density is reduced, affecting the lift. For more about this and other heat-related impacts…
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The extreme heat in the Pacific Northwest is setting all kinds of records for high temperatures, including some all-time highs for individual cities and potentially even for the entire country of Canada. It has also caused huge infrastructure problems with buckling highways and other effects of the high heat. I have heard of at least…
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As predicted, Tropical Storm Danny formed just before making landfall just north of Hilton Head, SC, and is pushing WNW through Georgia overnight, bringing rain and some gusty winds to parts of the region. It is not a strong storm and no major impacts are expected as it moves through Georgia tonight into Tuesday. It…
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Over the last day, an area of disturbed weather has developed in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda and is moving westward towards the US East Coast. It is still pretty weak but has a 50 percent chance of developing over the next five days. Realistically, if it is going to develop, it has about one…