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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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Hurricane Matthew strengthened slightly as of 11 pm and the path of the store now takes it closer to the Atlantic coast in much of the Southeast. If you live in a coastal county along the Atlantic, you should make preparations now in case this devastating hurricane comes to your area. Here are some recommendations…
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Hurricanes sometimes go through a cycle where their eye wall disappears as a new eye wall forms farther out from the center and tightens up. This is called an eye wall replacement cycle. You can see one in Hurricane Matthew today at https://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tc/2016_14L/webManager/displayGifsBy12hr_06.html. Very cool!