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From my climatologist friend Jordan McLeod on Facebook: Here’s a map showing the 4-day rainfall totals from Hurricane Florence, using gridded Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimates (MPE) data provided by the National Weather Service. The footprint of 10″+ of precipitation across the Carolinas is simply astounding, with numerous 30″+ pixels located in…
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Now that Florence is moving out of the Southeast except for a few lingering feeder bands through NC, it’s time to think about the success or failure of messaging about the storm. The first thing to remember is that the forecast from the National Hurricane Center was fantastic as much…
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To build an airport, you need a large, flat space. Sometimes those spaces can be found on top of hills (Duluth MN is one of those). Others are in valleys. Many are found along coastlines near sea level, and in some cases artificial runways have been built into the water…
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This week as Hurricane Florence bore down on the coast of North Carolina and then drifted south, multitudes of people were forced to evacuate from their homes, many near the coast and others in flood-prone inland areas. A large number of them ended up in Georgia, since it was expected…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows the continuing presence of now Tropical Storm Florence as it slowly drifts to the SW before it turns west later today. The rainfall for the next seven days is mainly due to Florence except in Florida, where regular scattered daily thundershowers are expected to…
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The New York Times posted an article yesterday which described some of the different hazardous sites in the path of Hurricane Florence, including superfund sites, coal ash ponds and hog farms. A lot of these are now under attack from Florence’s winds, rain and floods. Spillage from the sites could…
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Just for fun, I grabbed the month to date temperature and precipitation departures from normal for the US as of this morning, just as Hurricane Florence was coming onshore. As of this morning a good chunk of the Southeast was drier than usual for the month and most of it…
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