Climate outlooks
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued their updated May 2024 outlook for temperature and precipitation today. It shows that as earlier predicted, the entire region is expected to be warmer than normal. The precipitation outlook has shifted from the mid-month prediction and is now showing the potential for the development of drought in the central Florida…
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A stalled storm system in the central US is bringing round after round of severe weather to that region, but very little rain is expected to make it east to the Southeast in the next week. Alabama will see the best chance since it is nearest that strong system, but most of the rest of…
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The latest monthly and season outlooks for May and May through July were released by NOAA last week. They show that for both the May and May-July periods, the climate of the Southeast is expected to warmer than normal in temperature and wetter than normal in rainfall. This is good news for farmers overall since…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region should get some rain this week but amounts will be relatively light. Most areas will get less than half an inch. The largest portion of rain will fall over the next few days, followed by a dry period mid-week. Rain will return to northern…
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After all the rain we have been having, farmers are no doubt excited to hear that this week should be nearly dry for most of the region. That will allow a lot of planting and other field work to take place. The wettest areas will be in northern Alabama and eastern Virginia while Florida will…
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I am in Austin TX for the eclipse on Monday, but I don’t expect to see much, since rain is expected to move in on Monday morning. But I am hopeful that we may get a break in the clouds. If nothing else, it will get really dark for a few minutes. That rain will…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region should receive less than half an inch this week, with some areas in Virginia, northern GA and NE Alabama and the west coast of Florida receiving up to an inch. Most of the rain will fall midweek, with another dry weekend coming up. The…
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