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The National Hurricane Center issued its last statement on the remains of what was once Hurricane Danny this morning. Danny hit an area of cooler ocean temperatures and strong wind shear which shut down convection in the storm, leaving just a remnant tropical wave which is not expected to redevelop, although it could bring some…
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Seasonal forecasts are available from a number of sources, including the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). Today the Illinois State Climatologist, Jim Angel, wrote in his blog about another CPC source of monthly and seasonal forecasts at https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/NMME/seasanom.shtml. The North American Multi-Model Ensemble provides forecasts from different climate…
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Today is the 23rd anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Andrew, one of the most devastating hurricanes ever to hit Florida. My husband and I visited his aunt in Miami almost a year after the storm, and the amount of damage that remained, some places looking virtually untouched, was sobering. It is also the 10th…
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How much are the losses from the California drought? Economists have various estimates depending on how the losses are tallied. The Fiscal Times estimates that the direct losses from fallowed land that is not in production are around $1.8 billion. But they also point out that if the estimated number of acres of land not…
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Scientists that study plants growing in areas affected by Western wildfires are noticing that the types of plants that replace the old burned-over varieties are different than the plants that were originally there, according to research published recently in the Journal of Ecology. The new plants are generally those that are more adapted to warmer, more…
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The latest 7-day QPF forecast for the Southeast shows another wet week for the peninsula of Florida, with a chance of showers every day next week. Other areas of the Southeast can also expect to experience scattered showers, although away from the coast there should be some dry days next Monday through Thursday. The big…
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Yesterday NOAA released their latest global climate summary for July 2015. The summary showed that for global temperatures, this year’s July was the warmest in the 136-year instrumental record. The average January through July global temperature was also the hottest in the 136-year record. On the NOAA webinar yesterday, scientists noted that with the El…