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The latest 7-day QPF map shows conditions that will be as dry as a bone for the next week for the vast majority of the Southeast. Just a few areas show any rain at all and only western Tennessee has a chance of getting anything really substantial. What is worse is that if you look…
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The first official forecast of the 2026 Atlantic tropical season was released this week by Colorado State University scientists. It shows that they are expecting the number of named storms to be slightly below the long-term average and all of the other related hurricane variables like accumulated energy are also expected to be below average.…
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As temperature and humidity rises, conditions for living safely without heat-related illnesses become less frequent. Days with very high temperature and humidity lead to increases in heat stress and illness as well as deaths. A study published in Nature Communications concluded that “deadly conditions have already placed hundreds of millions of people at grave risk.” The…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought continued to expand and worsen across the region in spite of some rain that fell on Easter, dampening sunrise services but failing to make much of a dent in the water deficits. The area of exceptional (D4) drought continues to expand in southern Georgia and the…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center announced today that the latest La Nina is now officially over and has been replaced by neutral conditions, as has been long expected. The ocean conditions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) are now expected to swing rapidly to the opposite phase, El Nino, with warmer than normal sea surface temperatures…
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The climate summary for March 2026 was released this week and shows that the contiguous US was the warmest on record. This is based primarily on record-setting warmth in the western United States coupled with significantly above normal temperatures in most of the eastern US as well. By contrast, Alaska had their third-coldest March on…
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The exceptionally warm and dry winter that affected the western US is likely to lead to summer conditions that could be disastrous in the extent of fire and drought that may be experienced. Grist magazine describes the devastating lack of snow cover this year, which usually provides 60-70 percent of the Northwest’s water supply and…