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Soil Moisture Condition Monitoring Weekly Report: Severely Wet

Station Number: OH-HM-24
Station Name: Cheviot 3.4 W
Report Date: 12/8/2018
Submitted: 12/08/2018 6:43 AM
Scale Bar: Severely Wet
Description:

1.32 inches of rain and melted precipitation in the past week and 1.98 inches in December. 2018 total is 20 inches above normal. Soil is wet. Ground is completely saturated with water. Cold weather has allowed little evaporation.

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Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife

This report is specifically for the Arbor Doctor’s location 3.4 miles west of Cheviot, OH, in the western suburbs of Cincinnati in southwest Ohio. This location is also an official cooperative observation site for the National Weather Service listed as Cheviot 3W.

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Major storm system to impact the south but will stay south of Cincinnati.

A major storm system will be moving through the south this weekend. Cold high pressure will suppress this system to the south of Cincinnati. Very heavy rain is forecast in the south with heavy snow in the Carolinas and southwest Virginia. Snow in the Blue Ridge could be epic. Most areas west of the mountains will get cold rain or mixed precipitation.

 

 

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NOAA team sees Florence and Michael storm surge devastation first-hand

Did storm surge watches & warnings make a difference?

Hurricanes Florence and Michael barrelled through portions of the southeastern United States in September and October. These storms occurred within four weeks of each other and both brought life-threatening storm surge.

GOES-East satellite image of Hurricane Florence making landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018
GOES-East satellite image of Hurricane Florence making landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018 (NOAA)Download

Soon after landfall, National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham, Storm Surge Specialist Jamie Rhome, and Hurricane Specialist Unit Branch Chief Dr. Michael Brennan traveled to the hardest hit regions. Their goal was to see how storm surge watches and warnings, and the potential storm surge flooding maps issued by the hurricane center lined up with actual events. The team met with the local emergency managers who used these products to make their evacuation decisions. They also heard from people who experienced the impacts of surge and the catastrophic inland flooding. Read more here>>>