Climate outlooks
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The latest 7-day QPF forecast shows that most parts of the Southeast should see only light amounts of rain this week, which should not cause significant changes in the Drought Monitor. The exceptions are southern Florida and eastern North Carolina and Virginia, which could see over an inch. The longer range forecasts show that warmer…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most areas of the Southeast will receive an inch or so of rain, with the possibility of showers every day. The heaviest rains are expected in the Florida peninsula and the lightest amounts are expected to be in central Virginia and North Carolina.
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The latest outlooks for July and beyond were released this week by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. They show that for both July and July through September, warmer than normal temperatures are more likely to continue, especially for southern parts of the region. Precipitation does not show a trend one way or the other, although they…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most areas of the Southeast should receive rain this week. The driest area is expected to be upstate South Carolina, with wetter conditions in southern Florida, western Alabama, and northern Virginia. The wettest area of the country continues to be a band through eastern Oklahoma to the Ohio…
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The latest edition of the El Niño outlook was published this week. It shows that El Niño is well entrenched in the central Pacific, with cooler conditions in the eastern Pacific due a temporary Kelvin wave. Virtually every statistical and dynamical model predicts that this El Niño will continue for the next few months, potentially…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that only light rain can be expected in most of the Southeast in the next week. After a dry weekend, rain chances improve slightly during the week. The wettest areas will be the interior of the Florida peninsula and the mountainous areas of Georgia and the Carolinas. The pattern…
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The Climate Prediction Center released an updated outlook for June 2019 this afternoon. It shows that all of Florida and parts of the rest of the region lean towards warmer than normal temperatures. There is no indication of whether June will be wetter or drier than normal at this point, leading to “equal chances” of…
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