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How often does New England deal with hurricanes?
New England dealt with Tropical Storm Henri over the past weekend — nearly the first hurricane to make landfall in New England in 30 years.
As it turns out, that long interval between landfalling hurricanes in that region is unusually long. Continue reading
Category: History, Meteorology, Severe Weather, Tropical
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What holds clouds up, and why are some fluffy on top but flat on the bottom?
One of our readers awoke to some beautiful clouds in the summer sky recently, and those two excellent questions popped into her mind.
Clouds are composed of tiny liquid water droplets (whose diameters are about the width of a human hair) and tiny shards of ice in a variety of shapes. Continue reading
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It’s rained a bit lately. So is the drought over yet in southern Wisconsin?
The accumulated lack of precipitation we experienced the first part of this year has produced severe drought conditions in southern Lafayette, southern Walworth, Racine and Kenosha counties as of the end of last week.
Moderate drought continues across southern Sauk, southern Columbia, Dodge, Washington, Ozaukee, Iowa, Dane, Jefferson, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Green and Rock counties as well.
Since Aug. 1, 2020, Madison has recorded a deficit of 10.34 inches of precipitation. That translates to only 71.6% of the area’s normal amount of precipitation over that interval. Continue reading
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Why is the high temperature forecast sometimes too high?
We are in the midst of another hot spell here in southern Wisconsin.
Last Friday was the first of several days that were forecast to see high temperatures at or above 90 degrees (we’ve had only six through Friday all season!). Continue reading
Are there clothes that can cool us down?
There are clothes that have been developed that can keep us warmer. That type of clothing has been around for many years.
We have been less successful at developing clothes that can keep us cool on hot days. The solution has generally been to wear less clothing. Continue reading
