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March 3, 2023

The severe weather in the lower MS valley is far from over

The system is slowly strengthening and there is going to be a threat of strong tornadoes in AR, LA, MS and SW TN through sunrise. The timing is what has been most worrisome with this system with a decent potential for strong long track tornadoes in the wee hours while everyone's asleep. Put your weather radios next to your bed tonight. These are the systems that have the potential to be very dangerous.

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March 3, 2023

The severe weather in the lower MS valley is far from over

The system is slowly strengthening and there is going to be a threat of strong tornadoes in AR, LA, MS and SW TN through sunrise. The timing is what has been most worrisome with this system with a decent potential for strong long track tornadoes in the wee hours while everyone's asleep. Put your weather radios next to your bed tonight. These are the systems that have the potential to be very dangerous.

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March 2, 2023

Heads up NE TX,SE OK, SCentral AR and points east for potential evening tornado outbreak

Cross post from Weather Watchers....

These early spring severe setups can spawn especially intense super cells and the potential is certainly there this evening for these areas. Some links below from the Severe Storms Prediction Center and also Trey Greenwoods excellent youtube channel Convective Chronicles (super weather nerd language alert ) discussing this evenings setup. This threat will continue into the Tennessee and lower Ohio valleys into tomorrow. We're in an unusual pattern for late winter/early spring so far where things can ramp up quickly. Be safe!

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Trey Greenwoods discussion....

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March 2, 2023

Heads up NE TX,SE OK, SCentral AR and points east for potential evening tornado outbreak

These early spring severe setups can spawn especially intense super cells and the potential is certainly there this evening for these areas. Some links below from the Severe Storms Prediction Center and also Trey Greenwoods excellent youtube channel Convective Chronicles (super weather nerd language alert ) discussing this evenings setup. This threat will continue into the Tennessee and lower Ohio valleys into tomorrow. We're in an unusual pattern for late winter/early spring so far where things can ramp up quickly. Be safe!

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Trey Greenwoods discussion....

&ab_channel=ConvectiveChronicles
February 4, 2023

Route to Super Bowl dangerous for Mexico's avocado haulers

SANTA ANA ZIROSTO, Mexico (AP) — It is a long and sometimes dangerous journey for truckers transporting the avocados destined for guacamole on tables and tailgates in the United States during the Super Bowl. It starts in villages like Santa Ana Zirosto, high in the misty, pine-clad mountains of the western Mexico state of Michoacan. The roads are so dangerous — beset by drug cartels, common criminals, and extortion and kidnap gangs — that state police provide escorts for the trucks brave enough to face the 40-mile (60-kilometer) trip to packing and shipping plants in the city of Uruapan.

Truck driver Jesús Quintero starts early in the morning, gathering crates of avocados picked the day before in orchards around Santa Ana, before he takes them to a weighing station. Then he joins up with other trucks waiting for a convoy of blue-and-white state police trucks — they recently changed their name to Civil Guard — to start out for Uruapan.

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It was an attempt by Michoacan growers to put behind them last year’s debacle, when the U.S. government suspended inspections of the fruit in February, right before the 2022 Super Bowl. The inspections were halted for about 10 days after a U.S. inspector was threatened in Michoacan, where growers are routinely subject to extortion by drug cartels. Some Michoacan packers were reportedly buying avocados from other, non-certified states and trying to pass them off as being from Michoacan and were angry the U.S. inspector wouldn’t go along with that.....

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Exports resumed after Mexico and the United States agreed to enact “measures that ensure the safety” of the inspectors.
“This season we are going to recover the confidence of the producers, growers and consumers. By increasing the export production, we hope to send 130,000 tons this season,” the governor said.

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https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-drug-crimes-caribbean-mexico-90d19f78c27a8e934e5edd66c8647864?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_08

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