Climate outlooks
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A couple of disturbances from the tropics will bring a lot of rain to the Southeast this week. One disturbance will move north from the southeastern tip of Florida over the weekend and will bring rain to Georgia and the Carolinas by Monday or Tuesday. Another one will move in from the northeastern Gulf of…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that the coastal plains and Piedmont regions of the Southeast will be largely bypassed by rain this week. Some rain from a subtropical system in the Atlantic Ocean will fall on southern Florida, which could alleviate some of the drought there. Rain will also fall in the Tennessee…
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The latest outlook maps from the Climate Prediction Center show an increased chance of above normal temperatures across the country in May. Precipitation in the Southeast shows a tendency towards drier than normal conditions in the Tennessee River Valley, which is consistent with recent research showing the highest likelihood of dry conditions in that region…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that no rain is expected in almost all of the Southeast this week. The weekend should be completely dry except for some weak showers along the Appalachian Mountains, then no rain in the region until Thursday and Friday, when a front moving into the region from the west will…
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The 7-day forecast for rainfall in the Southeast shows that we are expected to get up to several inches of rain in the next week. Most of that will fall Sunday night into Tuesday morning as a low passes over Alabama and Georgia. After that passes, rainfall amounts will be light. We can use the…
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The latest set of outlook maps for May 2018 and beyond are now available from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. They show that May leans towards warmer and wetter than normal for all of the Southeast, with the strongest signal in southern Florida. Warmer than normal conditions are also more likely for the May through July…
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The next two days should bring a lot of rain to some parts of the Southeast but less to others. After the storm system passes, we can expect dry conditions for the remainder of the week. Since some of the storms this weekend could be severe, make sure you have a way to get storm…
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