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The last 30 days have been very wet in parts of Florida, although the southern tip is quite dry and is in extreme drought. The map below from https://water.weather.gov/precip shows that some areas of western Florida north and south of Tampa have an excess of 8 inches in just the last month. If the path…
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Rome Ethredge posted some notes on what to expect this winter from a recent meeting of Southeast Climate Consortium members. You can read the original post and see some pictures from the meeting at https://seminolecropnews.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/wet-winter-predicted/. Here are his take-away points from the meeting, based on the highly probable occurrence of a strong El Nino. Keep in mind…
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AgWeb posted a short article this week based on a poster from Ohio State University on common problems with ears of corn. The article showed pictures of different kinds of abnormalities and linked them to potential causes of each condition. Many of them are related to adverse climate effects like cold temperatures or drought happening at…
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Earlier today I wrote about the difficulty that hurricane forecasters were having in making a good forecast on where Erika is going. Here’s a little more information to show you just how tough it can be. Hurricane forecasters, like weather forecasters and climate modelers, use a variety of computer models to simulate what the future…
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Today marks the anniversary of the Indonesian volcano, Krakatoa, which erupted catastrophically on August 27, 1883. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has a history of the event at https://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/history/1883.shtml. It is considered to be one of the most explosive eruptions in history and it is said that the shock waves in the atmosphere went around the…
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The 11 AM forecast for Erika is now available and shows a very slight shift to the west on the projected path, although the change is not large. In their discussion the forecasters note that the storm is very disorganized, which makes it much harder to make an accurate prediction of where it is ultimately…
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The Japanese Meteorological Agency has a new weather satellite, the Himawari-8. It has incredibly high resolution pictures in both space and time. The CIMSS satellite blog (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center) has an example of the stunning images that are available from the satellite…