There I was, checking the weather forecast for the last few days of my field season, writing in dismay on the blog that I would return home with no storm samples. (See the post below) The forecast had been the same as it was seemingly all summer: 40% chance of thunderstorms. At this point 40% […]
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Scott Bailey sent an update from Hubbard Brook earlier this week. There was no major damage to the forest or to any instrumentation including our experimental sites in WS3. Rainfall amounts were in the 4+ inch range, which puts Hurricane Irene as the 9th largest precipitation event at HB since monitoring began in 1956. The
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Some of the largest rainfall accumulations in the world have observed have been in the central Appalachian region. A new paper that came out this week in Water Resources Research characterizes features that lead to these large orographic/convective storms that occur predominantly during the summer. Complex interactions between topography and storm dynamics are not well
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