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Rather than write an update about Matthew myself, I am going to defer to the exhaustive discussion on Matthew provided by Jeff Masters in the Weather Underground blog here. Needless to say, this is probably going to be one of the defining weather moments of 2016 and for some people, for their lifetimes. One of…
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The USDA has issued a press release on Hurricane Matthew and its potential impacts on agriculture in the Southeast as well as resources that might be useful to producers. I have reproduced it below but you can also read it at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAOC/bulletins/1695705. USDA Prepares for Hurricane Matthew USDA Office of Communications sent this bulletin at 10/05/2016…
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All eyes among my meteorologist friends as well as many others are on the tropics as Hurricane Matthew moves north through the Bahamas today headed towards the Southeast. If you live within 100 miles of the coast, I hope you have made preparations for the storm, which is likely to be the worst that most…
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Above-normal temperatures continued in Georgia for a fourth straight month in September. Departures from normal temperature were even higher in September than in August. The hottest areas were in the northwestern half of the state where no cooling relief from tropical storm rain and clouds occurred. Tropical storms Hermine and Julia provided much needed rainfall…
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The Florida climate summary for September 2016 is now available. You can access it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-september-2016.
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Red sprites are a high-altitude extremely rapid lightning discharge that happens over thunderstorms. According to a recent National Geographic post, “sometimes called “upward lightning” and “cloud-to-stratospheric lightning,” sprites are momentary bursts of electricity that can literally reach the edge of space, about 50 miles above the ground. They’re rarely documented because they are so short…
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The latest monthly climate update is now available from the State Climate Office of North Carolina. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=214&h=5666e5c1.
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