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This year’s crop of pecans has been very bountiful and the trees have been loaded with nuts. With such an active tropical season, producers have been concerned about the possibility of losing a large portion of those nuts as well as seeing damage to trees from tropical winds, as happened with Irma and Michael in…
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Over time, scientists have noticed that some hurricanes and tropical systems generate areas of heavy rain far ahead of the main storm system. These events are called Predecessor Rain Events (PREs) because they generally occur about 36 hours ahead of the main storm passage and as much as 600 miles poleward of the storm center.…
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Hurricane Zeta formed today and is headed towards the Yucatan peninsula, where it is expected to make landfall south of Cancun before moving NE into the Gulf of Mexico. It will move north and then northeast as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday afternoon. It is not clear if it will be a…
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As expected, Tropical Storm Zeta was named today and is expected to make landfall as a hurricane on Wednesday along the Louisiana coast. So far this time it looks like eastern LA is more likely to be hit, but there is still some time for things to change. The storm is then expected to pass…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that this coming week will be quite a bit rainier than the last couple due to the passage of what is likely to be Tropical Storm Zeta (now tropical depression 28) mid-week. The heaviest rain from Zeta should fall in parts of Alabama and Georgia Tuesday night through Thursday…
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The next webinar to be offered by the Georgia Climate Project is coming up on Wednesday, October 28, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET. You can find more information below. To register, visit https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aM8nsHoTRTuuay1UqDBJZQ.
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In the latest paleoclimate research published this week, climate scientists have been able to use a new source of proxy data to lengthen the known length of the Atlantic sea surface temperature from 100 years to 2,900 years using lake sediments from Sawtooth Lake in the Canadian High Arctic. The research shows that the last…