Climate outlooks
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After a mostly dry weekend (except for Florida and the mountains), rain chances increase over the week as a front moves closer to the area. By Thursday, rain is more likely with thunderstorms ahead of the front, but may still be scattered. The driest region this week will be southern Georgia. The heaviest rain will…
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The latest set of temperature and precipitation outlooks was released today by the Climate Prediction Center. They show that for October, the forecasts are leaning towards wetter and warmer than normal conditions. This is basically a continuation of the last few months. The outlook for the rest of 2018 shows that most of the Southeast…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows the continuing presence of now Tropical Storm Florence as it slowly drifts to the SW before it turns west later today. The rainfall for the next seven days is mainly due to Florence except in Florida, where regular scattered daily thundershowers are expected to occur all week. Once Florence…
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This week’s 7-day QPF map shows that a lot of rain is expected along the path of what should be Major Hurricane Florence if it hits the East Coast as is currently forecast. However, keep in mind that the forecasts this far out are subject to a considerable amount of uncertainty and the area of…
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Have you been taking advantage of the glorious weather to get in the fields and harvest or do other field work? We have seen better weather than I expected since my last update two weeks ago. The last two weeks have been much below normal in precipitation and temperatures have been running 2-4 degrees above…
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The latest monthly outlooks from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center for September 2018 shows that warmer and wetter than usual conditions are expected again this month. Nighttime temperatures are likely to be more above normal than daytime temperatures due to the cloud cover associated with the rainstorms, although there should be plenty of sunshine, especially in…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that for a large part of the Southeast, there will be little rain in the next week. Great news if you are trying to harvest, but maybe not so good if you are still trying to fill pods or keep your crops going for a few more weeks.…
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