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According to the latest Climate Prediction Center alert on October 10, La Niña is favored to emerge in September-November (60% chance) and is expected to persist through January-March 2025. The upcoming La Nina is expected to be weak and short based on computer forecasts, this means that the strongest impacts are likely to occur in…
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The Drought Monitor this week showed that while drought conditions improved in southern Alabama and far western Florida, an area of abnormally dry conditions reappeared in coastal Georgia and South Carolina, which received less rain from Debby and Helene than more inland counties did. Northern Alabama and parts of Tennessee also experienced an increase in…
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According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Milton made landfall just south of Sarasota FL at 8:30 pm EDT on October 9 as a category 3 hurricane. It had reached category 5 earlier today after going through an eyewall replacement cycle last night and re-intensifying, but increased wind shear and drier air being pulled into…
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The National Centers for Environmental Information serves as the official repository for all federal weather and climate information, including satellites, radar, and surface observations. It is located in downtown in Asheville, NC. A number of my friends and colleagues work there and many of them have been affected by the flooding rains of Helene. They…
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Meteorologists have been watching the intensification of Hurricane Milton all day with disbelief since it went from a Category 1 storm to a Category 5 storm in less than 12 hours, a rate that has never been seen before. The storm is still predicted to make landfall near Tampa FL as a major hurricane, but…
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Here are a few more recent stories I have read on a variety of impacts of Helene on agriculture, mostly in Georgia. I also included a couple of links at the end discussing the long-term financial impacts on farmers and homeowners and a link to the FEMA Rumor Response page, which is what they posted…
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The area of disturbed weather in the Gulf of Mexico has finally coalesced into a tropical depression earlier today and is now Tropical Storm Milton. Milton is expected to deepen as it moves over the very warm Gulf of Mexico and is predicted to hit somewhere along the West Coast of Florida midweek, potentially as…
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