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The seasonal hurricane forecasting group at Colorado State University released a revised forecast for the number of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin today. It’s not a big surprised that the numbers have gone up considering how active this year has already been. Their new forecast shows us as getting an…
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UGA’s Small Business Development Center is offering a series of free webinars on how to prepare your business for impacts from tropical storms and hurricanes on August 24-27. You can look at the flyer below or go to https://www.georgiasbdc.org/emergency-preparedness-and-business-continuity-webinar-series/ for more information or to register for the webinars. Planning is important and can make the…
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A question I get quite often is how well the global climate models have been able to predict our present climate as well as making predictions forward in time. Here is an interesting article which looks at several well-known past climate model predictions to see how well they predicted our current climate. What the analysis…
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The folks at the North Carolina Climate Office were up bright and early this morning and have already put together a report on the impacts of Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall near Wilmington NC last night a little after 11 pm and crossed the state over the next few hours. Today it is moving through…
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On August 3, Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Wilmington NC just before midnight. This is the earliest “I” storm we have ever observed, which shows you how active the Atlantic hurricane season has been so far this year. Climatologically, we are not even near the peak of hurricane season yet—that usually comes between mid-August and…
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The latest monthly summary for July 2020 for North Carolina is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=320&h=5666e5c1.
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The latest forecast for Tropical Storm Isaias as of Sunday night at 11 pm shows a lopsided storm which has most of its energy and rainfall on the east side of the storm. The current forecast path of the storm is for it to move north from its present position near the Space Coast of…