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The latest 7 day QPF map for the US shows that there will be quite a difference in rain amount for the next three days over the Southeast. Florida and the adjacent areas of Alabama and Georgia will see a significant amount of rain over the next three days as a front stalled over the…
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With all of the droughts and floods that are currently going on across the US, it is not surprising that farmers are thinking more about water than they have for some time. The Farm Press published a recent article in which some farmers described what water meant to them, including a farmer from southern Georgia.
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The New York Times published this article last week about how the warming temperature trend across the globe is changing what El Nino looks like. We know that El Nino and La Nina have been natural parts of the atmosphere-ocean climate pattern on Earth for thousands of years and likely much longer. But as the…
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NOAA’s climate summary for April 2026 shows that across the Lower 48 states, the temperature was well above normal. Precipitation varied quite a bit across the country but in the Southeast, it was drier than normal everywhere except a small portion of Florida’s East Coast and northern Alabama. The warm and dry conditions contributed to…
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The latest Drought Monitor map, released earlier today, shows that for Georgia and South Carolina, there were no changes from last week. There was rain after the cutoff date of Tuesday morning, so it is likely there will be more changes next week when the next map comes out. Alabama saw a large area of…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region should get rain again this week, but the heaviest amounts are expected to fall in northern Alabama and NW Georgia as well as Tennessee. Other areas will see less rain, especially SE Georgia and the Florida peninsula, which did not get much from the…
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The updated monthly outlook for May 2026 was released last week by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. It shows that nearly all of the region does not show a tendency towards above or below normal precipitation or temperature. However, the southwest corner of Alabama does show a slight tendency towards wetter than normal conditions linked to…
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