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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows improvements across the region due to rainfall from a stalled front as well as the initial rainfall ahead of Hurricane Debby. Further improvements are expected in next week’s map, especially in the northern half, which will incorporate the Debby rainfall that occurred after the Tuesday cutoff. There are…
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As I write this, the remains of Hurricane Debby have moved off the coast of Georgia and will be spinning there for over a day before the center drifts back onshore and then gets caught up in steering currents and quickly moves up the East Coast, where it is already raining and causing havoc there.…
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Since the forecasts for Debby have been quite good in timing and intensity as well as the path it has taken so far, I am not going to spend much time discussing them. Tonight and tomorrow Debby is expected to continue its slow movement northeast and will likely go over the coast into the Atlantic…
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As of 11 pm on August 4, Debby was declared a hurricane with winds of 75 miles per hour. As expected, it has been getting stronger all day so this is no surprise, and further strengthening is likely before it makes landfall sometime on Monday along Florida’s Big Bend area. After it makes landfall it…
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Most of my meteorologist friends and I have been watching the progression of Tropical Storm Debby today as it moved north over warmer water and developed a more robust central circulation. The winds grew stronger and the central pressure dropped. Impacts such as storm surge and heavy rains have been occurring on the western side…
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Tropical Storm Debby was officially named this afternoon once tropical-storm force winds were detected by surface instrumentation. It is a wide storm that is not very organized at this point, so development will be limited until it pulls together more. The path of TS Debby is being consistently forecast by most computer models to make…
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The internet has been full of stories on agriculture and climate this week in addition to all of the stories about Tropical Storm Debby as it has developed over time. Here are a few that caught my eye. American Agriculturalist: Loss of animals hits hard (Vermont flooding impacts on poultry farm) Ambrook: Salting the earth…