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The 11 pm forecast track for Hurricane Joaquin shows the tendency toward moving the track east is continuing, with the latest track now holding the center of the storm well off the East Coast as it travels north. This will result in less hurricane-based impacts from the storm in the Southeast. The 10:30 pm infrared NOAA…
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As of 2 pm, Hurricane Joaquin is now considered a dangerous category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph battering parts of the Bahama Islands. The latest projected path keeps it off shore, although there is still a lot of range in what the models are predicting. However, the strong flow around the storm directing…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their latest climate summary for September 2015. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=155&h=5666e5c1.
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October 1st marks the beginning of the water year. What is the water year? Here’s an answer from the CoCoRaHS web site at https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=mod&mod=1: “The water year is the best consecutive twelve months that span the “water storage/water usage” hydrologic cycle. The water year cycle is particularly obvious in the Rocky Mountains and western U.S.…
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My meteorologist friends have been filling up social media today with the latest information on Hurricane Joaquin, currently a strong category 2 storm in the Atlantic Ocean. (Note: at 11 pm it was increased to a major Category 3 hurricane.) It is moving slowly southwest now but is expected to make a sharp right turn and…
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September 2015 was cooler than normal for most of the Southeast, based on preliminary data through this morning. This was in stark contrast to most of the rest of the country, which was much warmer than normal. Precipitation across the Southeast varied quite a bit, with the Florida peninsula and areas of Georgia, Alabama and…
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Another great map I found this week describes the spatial pattern of light pollution across the US (there are also maps for other countries available online). This map was described in an article in The Week magazine. The US map below shows the amount of light pollution across the US. The areas in green are…