Climate outlooks
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that it should be a fairly rainy week across the Southeast. Some rain is possible every day, with no day looking completely dry. The rain is likely to be scattered thunderstorms for the most part, so expect hit-or-miss conditions in many areas.
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One month ago, dry conditions across Georgia were hampering the best efforts of producers to get their crops in and see them flourish. It seemed likely to me that we were headed into a drought, as often happens in the spring following the end of a La Nina. Then, in mid-May, the atmosphere threw a…
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After two weeks of very rainy conditions, most producers in the Southeast will be pleased to note that this week’s rain forecast is for much smaller amounts over the course of the week, including dry days for most of the area on Monday and Tuesday. That will allow some of them to catch up on…
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The official start of the Atlantic hurricane season is today, June 1. Obviously, we jumped the gun this year with Alberto transitioning from subtropical to tropical storm over land, but it is not that unusual to have a tropical system in the Atlantic before June 1. It is very unusual, though, to have one go…
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The latest monthly climate outlook for the US was released today. It shows that for most of the Southeast, conditions are likely to be above normal for June. Temperature is leaning slightly towards above normal temperatures in western parts of the region but elsewhere there are equal chances of near, below, or above normal. The…
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Subtropical Storm Alberto is organizing in the Gulf of Mexico and has started moving north. It is expected to make landfall somewhere along the coast between the Panhandle of Florida and eastern Louisiana sometime Monday night into Tuesday morning. However, the rain from Alberto will begin to fall well before the center hits shore. Rainfall…
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If you are interested in more information on the current weather and the outlook for the next week, here are two slide sets from the National Weather Service forecast office in Peachtree City GA and the Southeast River Forecast Center from media briefings earlier today. They provide more details about the upcoming tropical rain event.…
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