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The preliminary summary of climate for September 2017 shows that a large part of the Southeast was much above normal in precipitation due to rains from Hurricanes Harvey in Alabama and western Georgia and Irma in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Virginia, North Carolina and western Alabama largely missed the tropical rains and were below…
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One of the things that weather events of the past month have taught us is that our society is not prepared to deal with extreme weather that we already know from experience is happening now. Over 60 inches of rain near Beaumont TX in just a couple of days! Winds of 185 mph in Puerto…
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Vegetable Growers News reported this week that many vegetable growers in Florida were not insured and will face significant losses from Hurricane Irma, including plants that were already in the ground as well as plastic sheeting used to prepare strawberry fields for the upcoming season. USDA reported in a study earlier this year that only…
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The Weather Channel posted a set of photos taken of farm destruction from Hurricanes Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida and the Southeast. Not many photos have made it out of Puerto Rico yet but the few I have seen show almost total devastation of the crops there from Hurricane Maria, along with the…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the Southeast will be dry again this week with a strong high pressure center over us. A front stalled across the Florida panhandle will bring rain to that area as well as along the coasts, and a tropical system may form along the front and increase…
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Here are a couple of new video series that you might enjoy watching related to climate and agriculture. The first is ABC News Food Forecast featuring Ginger Zee from Good Morning America (a former student of my husband) about how weather and climate impacts our food. You can see the list of videos at https://abc.go.com/shows/food-forecast/episode-guide.…
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The National Weather Service offices in Atlanta GA and Charleston SC have published short reports on the impacts of Hurricane Irma on their forecast areas. You can read the Charleston one at https://www.weather.gov/chs/TropicalStormIrma-Sep2017 and the Atlanta one at https://www.weather.gov/ffc/2017_Irma.
Posted in: Tropical weather