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This week is the National Weather Service’s Lightning Awareness week. All this week they will be posting information about lightning causes, climatology, and safety. In Georgia, sadly, we have already had at least one death from lightning this year when a lightning bolt hit the ocean near a swimmer near Tybee Island and the electrical…
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I ran across this video a week ago and have just found it in my overloaded list of windows. It’s a little late for D-Day, which was earlier this month, but still a fascinating look at the weather planning required to plan the D-Day invasion, which required a lot of coordination and care in timing.…
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ACF Webinar Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Drought and Water Monthly Webinar + Evaporative Demand Drought Index Overview Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET The webinar will provide updated information on the climate, water, and drought status of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin. This drought assessment webinar is brought to you by the Auburn University Water…
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Now that we are in the tropical storm season, it’s important to make sure that people in coastal areas are prepared for the potential devastation of a hurricane or other disaster occurring and affecting their business. They could lose records, electricity, internet, or the building itself. And it does not need to be a business…
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The latest seasonal outlooks were released from NOAA last week. They show that July 2021 is expected to be wetter than normal but there is no signal in temperature except a slight lean toward warmer than normal conditions in the eastern part of the region. The next two weeks are expected to be cooler than…
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Today is the day of the summer solstice, so astronomical summer officially begins at 11:32 pm EDT (it’s June 21 in Great Britain). Remember that climatological summer began on June 1. We start the season with the passage of Tropical Depression Claudette, one of the earliest 3rd named storms of the year. According to Brian…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows a lot of rain for parts of the Southeast, dominated by the heavy rain that will come from TS Claudette (named as of 4 am this morning). Some areas could see up to 5 inches or more, but other areas will get missed. After Claudette moves out, a cold…
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