What started with “Hail Season” ended with disproving another ‘Old Wives Tale’ – sorry!

In my never-ending quest to learn everything I can about South Mississippi weather, I wanted to see if March was in fact “hail season” as I’ve dubbed it, or if it just felt like a…

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2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: An exaggerated example of an unnerving trend

As we get toward the end of a long – and I mean LONG – Atlantic Hurricane Season, I wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on the trend we are seeing in the…

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2020-2021 Gulf Coast Winter Outlook

After four-consecutive “wins” at seasonal forecasting, last year’s Outlook was, in a word, not great. It felt like I missed nearly every place I tried to get right. Okay, it wasn’t that bad. I gave…

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La Nina Watch posted: What it could mean for the Atlantic Hurricane Season and 2020-2021 Winter

That’s right, friends. While I will spend some time talking about La Niña and the hurricane Season, I also posted a “deep tease” about the upcoming winter. Two reasons. The first, I think most of…

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2019-2020 Winter Outlook verification: It was “drier-than-normal”

Well, it sure felt like a wet and mild winter, but feelings can be vastly different from fact. And they usually are. Our brain tends to get int eh way of remembering objective observations. That…

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Biogeographer Andy Reese discusses his research of an underwater forest in the Gulf of Mexico

In South Mississippi, counting pollen is usually done by sneezes. Or square feet. Not individually under a microscope. But, most of the pollen being counted by south Mississippians isn’t 60,000 years old. Trapped under the…

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