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Spring has ended and the preliminary statistics show that for many areas in the Southeast, temperatures were much above normal, placing them in the top ten warmest on record. A number of stations were also in the top ten driest on record, particularly in the areas that are now experiencing drought. A few coastal stations…
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If you are interested in seeing which hurricanes and tropical storms have passed through your area in the past, you should try out the NOAA hurricane track viewer. You can access it at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/historical-hurricane-tracks-gis-map-viewer. It includes tracks going back for the last 150 years, although areas far from land may be underrepresented because no satellites were…
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One of my favorite site, https://earth.nullschool.net, is showing the broad circulation around Tropical Storm Colin. You can see that there is a tremendous amount of moisture being pulled into the Southeast ahead of the storm. It is no wonder that rainfall amounts of up to several inches of rain are predicted to occur over the next…
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The National Hurricane Center noted the official development of Tropical Storm Colin this afternoon at 5:30 EDT. This is the earliest ever in the season for a third named storm. Colin is forecast to continue to develop and move off to the northeast over the next few days. It is expected to land on the Florida…
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Back in June 2001, Tropical Storm Allison dropped immense amounts of rain across Texas before the remains of the storm moved slowly across the Southeast, causing flooding and damage from tornadoes across a wide swath of the eastern US. As with many tropical storms, winds were not the main impact of the storm–instead the heavy…
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NASA provides a lot of spectacular images from space, but also does a lot of research on changes in the earth’s surface due to human activity as well as changes in climate on different time scales. Here are a couple of examples I ran across this week. Vox.com posted a story based on NASA’s Earth…
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Weather Underground‘s latest blog lists ten myths about hurricanes that are not true. Since the tropical season has already started, it’s important to know about the storms that could affect us here in the Southeast (and beyond!) this summer. You can read the list at https://www.wunderground.com/news/hurricane-myths-debunked-2016#prclt-FiGV1ecp.