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In addition to terrible effects on livestock, crops and farmers, floods can affect many other things as well. I was interested to read this story about how a famous painting in Florence, Italy, has been restored and redisplayed at its museum 50 years after it was damaged by a strong flood. You can read about…
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We’ve had enough visits to other planets and moons to allow us to look at their faces over time. This allows us to see things like the movement of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter (a very large storm) and the impact of a comet, also on Jupiter. Here is a link to an article…
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Weather Underground notes that it is not too late for a tropical storm or even a hurricane to affect the Atlantic basin this year in a blog post today at https://www.wunderground.com/news/november-hurricane-keep-your-hurricane-kits-available?__prclt=yyRexmVE. While the tropics are less active towards the end of the season, we can still have occasional storms. At the moment the National Hurricane…
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The latest 7-day QPF shows that parts of the Southeast may get a little rain later this weekend in conjunction with the development of a coastal low pressure center off the East Coast, but amounts are expected to be light. The rest of the week will be dry, but we could see a rainmaker come…
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The smoke has cleared, at least temporarily, from Athens this morning and it smells less smoky, which means the plume is now going elsewhere. Here are a couple of pictures of the Rough Ridge fire in northern GA which the NWS Peachtree City posted yesterday. You can read more about efforts to fight these fires…
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At dinner tonight my husband asked me how the current drought compared to 2007. So here’s a little look at the similarities and differences between the two droughts. In some respects the two droughts look very similar. At this time of year in early November, both of them showed a spatial pattern that covered the…
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A couple of Facebook posts this morning remind me that it is time to think about cold weather returning to our region. NWS Peachtree City has posted freeze warnings for Saturday night into Sunday morning for the northeast Georgia mountains. At least one of the CoCoRaHS observers has already reported temperatures down to 28 F…