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Major flooding is occurring in the Austin, Texas region after Tropical Storm Hermine dumped an estimated 10 - 15 inches of rain over the past 24 hours. Hardest hit was the area ten miles north-northwest of Austin, where an National Weather Serivce station measured 10.11" of rain yesterday. The rains have swollen the South Fork of the San Gabriel River at Georgetown, Texas, to 50-year flood heights. This afternoon, additional significant rains are possible near Austin as the sun's heat drives thunderstorm development in the very moist airmass over Central Texas.

Who is the Audience? What to Do ? (2) At the bottom is a short Pakistan update.In the previous article I argued that much of the “opposition” to climate change was politically motivated or politically aligned. With such political positioning a communications and education strategy motivated by the opposition only feeds the political argument. This is especially true in “crisis situations,” where reactions to the crisis serve to build and perpetuate the crisis. Then some become vested in maintaining the crisis, including those whose primary goal is to seed doubt ...

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Storms associated with Tropical Storm Hermine have produced over 15 inches of rain in central Texas leading to flash flooding. Preliminary reports indicate that this a 50-year flood for Georgetown, TX. This is not the worst storm, that was the Thrall, TX storm of Sep. 1921 which produced 30 inches in 12 hours.

Another bubble of high pressure will allow for unusually warm temperatures again in the Middle Atlantic this week; while the tropics pose a possible long term risk towards the East Coast.

AMO: Atlantic Multidecadal OsillationATCF: Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting systemBOC: Bay Of CampecheCATL: Central AtlanticCARCAH: Chief, Aerial Reconnaissance Coordination, All HurricanesCDO: ...

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Some of our friends from the University of Michigan pointed us to a 3D photo that members of the project team had taken during their tornado hunt this year. We've reproduced it here, but you can take ...