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As we get our first frost advisories and snowfalls across portions of the United States, it's a good reminder that winter is just around the corner. It's a good time to revisit your approach to snow and ice removal. If you rely on outside contracts, then you owe it to yourself to look into Certified Snowfall Totals from our WeatherWorks brand. This is the original snowfall verification product that delivers unbiased, quality-controlled snow and ice totals to minimize billing disputes related to winter weather management.

Climate and weather-related hazards are on the rise for farms, businesses, and communities. The need to build resilience against these risks has never been greater. In this episode of Talking With the Experts, we talk with guests Paige Wyler of Ambrook and Christopher Wagoner, MPA of TFG about unlocking funding for #climateresilience projects. Check out the preview below, then click through for the full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g6XxySqy

Although #HurricaneMilton caused somewhere in the neighborhood of $160-$180 billion in economic losses, some experts are saying it could have been much worse. Several factors combined to help mitigate the damage Hurricane Milton was poised to inflict. Our latest blog post explores these mitigating factors to understand how much was due to luck and how much was due to controllable factors that could be replicated to mitigate future risk.

Now that #HurricaneMilton has passed, we begin the process of taking stock of the damage. There have been numerous reports about how severe the storm was. But all those fragmented reports can be confusing, making it difficult to appreciate the storm's true magnitude. To make it easier to comprehend the severity of Hurricane Milton, we've leveraged our proprietary decision support applications (especially AEM Elements™ 360) to provide one integrated view of the storm that simultaneously captures its various dimensions. NOTE: As you watch the video, you may see some numbers that differ from the "official" reports of NOAA and the National Weather Service. This speaks to the hyperlocal nature of weather. We have captured readings from key locations within the storm. However, a storm like Milton spans many miles across, and weather throughout the storm is not uniform. The conditions experienced at one location will naturally vary from those at others.

As #HurricaneMilton bears down on Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida, AEM meteorologist Mark Paquette explains what Florida residents can expect at landfall and beyond.

Even as we brace for the coming impact from #HurricaneMilton, we cannot afford to forget about #HurricaneHelene. Yes, there is an ongoing recovery effort that will take considerable time. But, it's more than that. Helene also exposed some important lessons that we need to learn to improve our resilience against disasters.

UPDATE: Milton has now been upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane: https://lnkd.in/g55XjBPk As #HurricaneMilton makes its way toward the southwest coast of Florida, it has intensified into a major Category 4 storm with 150+ mph winds. There was significant lightning around the eyewall during the period leading up to the intensification. This is expected to be an extremely dangerous storm with current predictions for a #stormsurge of 6-7 feet. There is a chance that #Milton could weaken again before making landfall, but in that scenario, the storm would likely become larger and affect even more people.

Was your community, business, or farm impacted by natural hazards in 2024? Are you planning to deal with natural hazard risks in 2025? If so, you deserve to be represented in our Weather Resilience Report. Click on the link below to take our survey. All responses are anonymous. The survey closes on October 18.

#HurricaneHelene has devastated the southeast U.S., especially western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. And there has been no shortage of news reports to cover that devastation. What garnered much less news was an unnamed tropical storm that blew through North Carolina just days before #Helene. Although it didn't get national media attention, it dumped 12-20 inches of rain over a 12-hour period across a 25-mile-wide region of southeast North Carolina. It was dubbed a "once-in-a thousand-years-storm" -- the fifth such storm that the area had seen in just the past 25 years. This is important for two reasons. First, the quick succession of the two storms underscores the fact that severe storms are becoming both more intense and more frequent. They are no longer anomalies. Secondly, by delivering rainfall ahead of Helene, the earlier storm contributed to a build-up of moisture, which may have exacerbated the damaging effects of Helene. You can find our blog post about the unnamed tropical storm here: