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Wet conditions are expected to continue to drop a lot of rain on the southern half of the region this week starting this weekend. Rain is already covering a lot of Florida and will provide rain to coastal areas along the Gulf Coast as well as the East Coast in the coming days. The northern…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that the recent significant rains that fell across a lot of the region cause a reduction in dry conditions in Georgia and South Carolina and parts of Alabama. The rain was due to overrunning of moist air over a wedge of cold, dense air moving SW…
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Tropical Storm Dexter formed this morning off the East Coast as it separated from an old stationary front and developed tropical characteristics. However, Dexter is moving rapidly to the northeast and poses no threat to us in the Southeast. The 7-day tropical outlook is showing two other areas of potential development for later in the…
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I was interested in reading this story about the impacts of heavy rain on pollinating corn because I usually think of the impacts of too little water on corn, not too much. This year, the heavy rains that have been occurring over the Corn Belt have caused problems for pollination there. In particular, wet conditions…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows a band of heavy rain stretching across the southern parts of Alabama and Georgia as well as the Florida Panhandle and the coastal Carolinas due to a stationary front that is expected to serve as the focus from numerous thunderstorms, especially this weekend and early into next week. After…
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The latest monthly outlook for August 2025 shows that the region is slightly like to be warmer than normal this month. The signal for above-normal rainfall is much stronger, with heavier than usual rain most likely in nearly all of Georgia plus SE Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. This is probably in large part due…
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The preliminary data for July 2025 shows that most of the region was warmer than normal and quite a bit of it was also drier than normal. The exception for precipitation was in North Carolina and Virginia where TS Chantal brought torrential rain to central parts of NC and then NE into Virginia early in…
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