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Hurricanes like Katrina and Ida (and Michael, Florence, Matthew, Irma, etc.) can cause tremendous damage to infrastructure from floods, storm surge, and high winds. One of the impacts is destruction of the power supply. Even here in Athens, GA, far from the coast. I had friends who lost power for a week with Tropical Storm…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows relatively light rainfall across most of the Southeast this week. The highest rainfall amounts will be in southern Florida and northwestern Alabama. But there is a big mass of disorganized convection in the Caribbean that could form a tropical depression within 5 days, and that has the potential to…
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With the end of August, we have reached the official end of climatological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Maps of the temperature and precipitation departures show that in general, the precipitation was wetter than normal and the temperature was cooler than normal, although as usual there is quite a bit of variation across the region.…
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The latest monthly and seasonal climate summary for North Carolina for August 2021 is now available at their blog. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/09/a-slow-starting-summer-heated-up-in-august/.
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The last 30 days of rainfall across the US has highlighted the vast difference in precipitation amounts between the West Coast and the East Coast this year. On the West Coast, almost no rain at all, leading to worsening drought there that is one factor that is leading to many wildfires this year. On the…
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Today is the first day of climatological fall, which covers the period from September 1 through November 30. We should feel cool and pretty (at least relative to summer) temperatures for the next few days before the humidity returns this weekend. Enjoy it while you can!
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It’s still pretty early to see detailed assessments of damage caused by the wind, surge, and rain of Hurricane Ida, but a few stories have appeared in the press so far. Here are the ones I have seen in the last couple of days. Infrastructure used to store and transport grain is one of the…