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If you don’t suffer from asthma, you might be surprised to know that an episode of difficult breathing can be triggered by a thunderstorm. The Weather Channel recently posted a story about how air flow in a thunderstorm can make asthma worse by concentrating pollen and dust particles beneath the downdraft of the storm. Those…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows a large portion of the Southeast with little to no rain for the next week. The wettest area will be in eastern Florida where there is the potential for low pressure to develop off the East Coast and draw some moisture into the Florida Peninsula. Most of the rest…
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I got an email a week or so ago asking me about “fungal storms” and how they are changing over time. This was the first time I had ever heard of this phrase, which sounds to me like something out of science fiction. So I did a little research and found out that this is…
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April Fool’s Day is a little bit past us on the calendar now, but I thought this article by Kelly Cebulko of STM Weather provided a nice list of weather myths that seem to pop up over and over again. You might enjoy reading about them at https://www.stmweather.com/blog/april-fools-top-weather-myths.
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released last Thursday, shows that drought increased in large parts of the Southeast in the past week due to the lack of rain. The area of exceptional D4 drought increased to over 5% of the region. Less than 3 % of the region has no dry conditions at all. Some…
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After a long dry spell, we are looking forward to seeing a higher chance of rain starting on Tuesday afternoon and increasing late in the week as the flow of warm and humid air from the Gulf into the Southeast is growing. There will be a chance of scattered showers on Tuesday and Wednesday, then…
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Those who work in coastal parts of the region will be especially affected by the likely loss of access to a hurricane evacuation planning web-based tool, known as HURREVAC, that is owned by FEMA and administered by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is used by meteorologists and emergency planners to identify areas that need to…