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2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Non-Minnesotans arguing about the weather

I’m guessing no.

I have to believe it just means it will get weaker slower. Probably because it needs deeper, warmer water. My guess is it just can’t pull the same energy out of shallow water.
 
The NHC (not me) is forecasting pockets of 30” of rain in some areas. 6-10” of rain forecast (BY THE NHC) for six states. 10-15” in three.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
The NHC (not me) is forecasting pockets of 30” of rain in some areas. 6-10” of rain forecast (BY THE NHC) for six states. 10-15” in three.
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Since you decided to take this a step further, so will I - your statement that the rainfall forecast is from NHC is completely wrong. It says right above the map - US Rainfall QPF (from WPC). That's the Weather Prediction Center, a.k.a. NWS Headquarters in DC. NHC handles the tropical part, WPC handles the rainfall over the US, because it has to be incorporated into the rest of their forecasts. But thanks for trying.

As for the system well out in the Atlantic - it's rare, but tropical and/or subtropical storms, do move through the area north of the Azores on occasion (though one forming there is much rarer). Water temperatures are a little too cool, so I doubt anything that forms would be tropical, but certainly subtropical. The models send this one into the Iberian Peninsula, which is extremely rare for one to survive that far north and east.
 
ScottK said:
Since you decided to take this a step further, so will I - your statement that the rainfall forecast is from NHC is completely wrong. It says right above the map - US Rainfall QPF (from WPC). That's the Weather Prediction Center, a.k.a. NWS Headquarters in DC. NHC handles the tropical part, WPC handles the rainfall over the US, because it has to be incorporated into the rest of their forecasts. But thanks for trying.

As for the system well out in the Atlantic - it's rare, but tropical and/or subtropical storms, do move through the area north of the Azores on occasion (though one forming there is much rarer). Water temperatures are a little too cool, so I doubt anything that forms would be tropical, but certainly subtropical. The models send this one into the Iberian Peninsula, which is extremely rare for one to survive that far north and east.
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Suboptimal.

Swarms of mosquitoes have killed cows, deer, horses and other livestock in Louisiana after rain from Hurricane Laura led to an explosion in the pests' population.

Thousands of mosquitoes have attacked animals as large as bulls, draining their blood and driving the massive creatures to pace in summer heat until they were exhausted, according to a Louisiana State University AgCenter veterinarian, agent and press release.

While recent aerial spraying efforts have helped bring the outbreak of mosquitoes under control, residents and animals in a portion of the state faced clouds of the bloodsucking insects in the days after Laura made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Aug. 27.

Farmers near where the storm made landfall have probably lost 300 to 400 cattle, said Dr. Craig Fontenot, a large-animal veterinarian based in Ville Platte.

“They're vicious little suckers,” he said.

Jeremy Hebert, a LSU AgCenter agent in Acadia Parish, told USA TODAY Thursday that residents along costal, marshy areas are accustomed to mosquitoes and expect the population to climb following a heavy rain. But the scale of this outbreak was much larger than Hebert expected: “I’ve never experienced anything like this."

The species of mosquito doesn’t transmit human diseases easily, Christine Navarre, an extension veterinarian with LSU AgCenter, told USA TODAY on Thursday.

But people in the area needed to take precautions at the peak of the outbreak, Hebert said. He remembers wearing long shirts and pants to cover skin and sprinting to his barn to avoid the clouds of mosquitoes. If he went outside with skin exposed, the insects quickly covered his skin.

“As soon as you would walk outside, your legs would turn black from the sheer amount of mosquitoes," Hebert said.
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Local guessers waxing poetic about Teddy hitting Maine next week. We need rain but we don't need a hurricane.
 
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