Climate outlooks
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If you’re wondering where the cold air is this time of year, you are not alone. A number of my friends have noted on Facebook how late the frost is to Minnesota and the upper Midwest this year and here in the Southeast we are later than normal as well. You can read about some…
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Corey Davis of the State Climate Office of North Carolina continues his series of blog posts on weather patterns that might affect our winter conditions in the Southeast in his latest post this morning. La Niña will be one big influence on our upcoming winter, but there are other patterns in play too. You can…
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Clint Thompson of the University of Georgia wrote an article last week discussing Georgia’s current drought and the outlook for this winter and next year. It quotes heavily from me but also provides insight from other UGA extension specialists and agents. Here is the article as printed in Growing Georgia today.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is offering a three-part series on the outlook for the upcoming winter. This week’s post is on forecasts based on folklore like woolly worm caterpillars and the two Farmers’ Almanacs. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=219&h=5666e5c1.
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The latest 7-day QPF shows that parts of the Southeast may get a little rain later this weekend in conjunction with the development of a coastal low pressure center off the East Coast, but amounts are expected to be light. The rest of the week will be dry, but we could see a rainmaker come…
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While this week looks mostly dry for most of the Southeast (with the exception of along the Gulf Coast and in Florida), there does appear to be a shift towards more typical November cool and wetter weather by about November 15. You always have to treat the farther-out forecasts with some skepticism, but mid-November is…
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Friends ask me at church and coworkers ask me at work, when is it going to rain? Unfortunately, the answer for today is “probably not this week.” The latest 7-day QPF map shows a very small chance of rain by late next week, but nothing for the next five days as a strong high pressure…
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