Pam Knox
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that rainfall across the Southeast should be lighter this week and next, although there will be periods of scattered rain. The driest part of next week will be today through Tuesday, with showers returning to northern GA and AL and the Southern Appalachians overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Those…
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Now that Debby is down to a tropical depression and headed out of our region soon, it is time to look ahead to see what is ahead. The National Hurricane Center has another area with a 50% chance of development in the next week somewhere in the western Atlantic. Since there is no center yet,…
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Someone on the NWS Peachtree City’s Facebook page today asked how the observed rainfall from Debby compared to the predicted amount. While Debby is still dropping some rain in Georgia, South Carolina and points north, here is a preliminary comparison. Below is a comparison of the reported and the forecast amounts. The comparison is actually…
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NOAA released the latest monthly climate summary for July 2024 today. It shows that there was a lot of extreme weather across the country this month, including Hurricane Beryl in Texas and the wildfires out west, particularly in California. The average temperature in the Southeast was fairly close to normal compared to the much warmer…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows improvements across the region due to rainfall from a stalled front as well as the initial rainfall ahead of Hurricane Debby. Further improvements are expected in next week’s map, especially in the northern half, which will incorporate the Debby rainfall that occurred after the Tuesday cutoff. There are…
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As I write this, the remains of Hurricane Debby have moved off the coast of Georgia and will be spinning there for over a day before the center drifts back onshore and then gets caught up in steering currents and quickly moves up the East Coast, where it is already raining and causing havoc there.…
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Since the forecasts for Debby have been quite good in timing and intensity as well as the path it has taken so far, I am not going to spend much time discussing them. Tonight and tomorrow Debby is expected to continue its slow movement northeast and will likely go over the coast into the Atlantic…
Posted in: Tropical weather