The harvest of cotton and other Southeastern crops is moving quickly. Some areas have been hit by rains which dampened the cotton, reducing quality and slowing the cotton picking. However, as this story from the Southeast Farm Press makes clear, the weather in North Carolina really cooperated with growers this…
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Here is a look at 20 historical droughts in the United States going back several centuries. The list is more focused on the western part of the country, but that is where the longest and most intense droughts were over long time periods. You might be interested in seeing some…
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With October almost in the books, a quick look shows that it was warmer than normal across the region, especially overnight lows. Precipitation varied, with the western areas generally wetter and the eastern areas generally drier. Forecasts for the first two weeks of November show conditions are likely to be…
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Even though the Atlantic has been unusually quiet for the last month, overnight they lurched back to life with the development of Subtropical Storm Wanda way out in the Atlantic. Wanda is predicted to gradually gain tropical characteristics over the next day or two and may become a tropical storm…
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The latest 7-day QPF shows almost no rain for the next five days with just a little light rain late in the week. A weak front should come through then, bringing some light rain to the area. Early November should also be quite dry. The long-range models are not showing…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that an area of moderate (D1) drought has been added to eastern North Carolina due to continuing dry conditions there. The abnormally dry areas in the region also expanded in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia as well as expanding into…
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Those of you who inhale weather like I do might be interested in this new weather channel that is coming online this month from Fox. I generally don’t watch television weather, since I get most of what I need from the web. But you might enjoy a different take on…
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