Climate outlooks
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I am doing a Zoom session online on Tuesday morning March 21 at 11 am EDT for Georgia extension agents, but am happy to welcome anyone else who might be interested. I will look back briefly at 2016 and the winter and then talk about the outlook for 2017, including the prospects for an El…
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Once the cold front moving through the Southeast this weekend moves past, we should see very light amounts of rainfall for the next seven days. The highest amounts are likely to be in North Carolina where drought expanded last week. Other areas, including most of Florida, is likely to see little to no rain. This,…
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NOAA released their spring outlook this morning. You can view the highlights in a 2-minute video here or read more about it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/2017-us-spring-climate-and-flood-outlook. The outlook shows that there is a chance of minor spring flooding across portions of the Southeast that are not in drought, mostly due to the possibility of some higher-intensity rains falling on…
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I’ll be doing a UGA training session on March 21 at 11 am EDT to provide a look back at the last year and winter and to look forward to the next growing season. This will be held by Zoom as an online webinar. I have a number of extension agents in Georgia signed up…
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The latest 7-day QPF shows a moderate amount of rain falling in northern areas of the region, with little to no rain occurring in southern Georgia and Alabama and most of Florida. More rain will fall off the coasts, but will not necessarily affect inland areas. From a timing standpoint, some precipitation is likely to…
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Even though most people are watching colder temperatures and a slight possibility for wintry precipitation this weekend, especially in the northern mountainous areas, I think the real concern this week is going to be the potential for a hard freeze mid-week across a lot of the Southeast north of the Georgia-Florida border. This could be…
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows that some rain is expected mid-week in the western part of the Southeast, but the first few days and the last two should be mainly dry across the region. You can access the shorter time periods at https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/day1-7.shtml. The wettest areas include Alabama and northern and western parts…
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