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As I am writing, the rain from TS Elsa is falling outside. The tree frogs are going nuts! The remains of Elsa are crossing Georgia’s coastal plain tonight, and it is headed off to the northeast towards the Carolinas and Virginia. It is expected to be a tropical depression by the time it hits North…
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Because of Tropical Storm Elsa, currently moving north from Florida into Georgia, the wind pattern in the Southeast is particularly interesting today (and tomorrow, too). If you like to look at wind maps, here are a few sites you might enjoy. US wind map (black and white): https://hint.fm/wind/ Earth wind map: https://earth.nullschool.net/ (you can drag…
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You have been hearing about all the extremely hot temperatures that have recently occurred in the Pacific Northwest. How do they compare to the record high temperatures around the world? You can see a map of the records for each continent below. In 2021 so far, Kuwait has had the hottest temperature, with a reading…
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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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