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You may have seen some videos and photos of flooding in northeastern Michigan over the last couple of days. Heavy rain there caused two dams to fail, raising water levels downstream by as much as 9 feet and causing 10,000 residents to evacuate. One of the dams had been declared unsafe by inspectors in 2018…
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I ran across an article this week in the Metropolitan Planning Council newsletter out of Chicago which discussed how rainstorms are now producing more rain than they have in the past. The article is here. They talk about how 100-year rain events now have more rain than in the past in their area. For example,…
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When I was applying to graduate schools a long time ago, I visited the University of Chicago and met one of the world’s most famous tornado researchers, Dr. Ted Fujita. Even though I did not go to school there, I remained in awe of his amazing research on how tornadoes form and move. So I…
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The freeze that occurred in early May damaged about 2 percent of the corn crop in North Carolina according to a report this week in the Southeast Farm Press. An additional 4 percent suffered some minor leaf burn but should grow out of it. Some of the worst-hit fields may have to be replanted. The…
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The forecast for rain on Saturday did not look too hopeful for rain in Georgia, but the latest forecast released today looks a lot more favorable for at least an inch of rain this week. We won’t see much if anything from Tropical Storm Arthur, which will be off to our east, but a complex…
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A new study published this week shows that the number of days with extremely high heat and humidity is increasing globally as the earth’s temperature warms. This means that there are parts of the earth that will be very inhospitable to human life, especially in areas where there is no air conditioning. The human survivability…
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At 11 PM on Sunday the National Hurricane Center noted the official formation of Tropical Storm Arthur off the east coast of Florida. This makes the sixth year in a row that a named tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic basin prior to the official start of the season on June 1. Arthur is…