Climate outlooks
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A large area of rain and some frozen precipitation will cross the Southeast beginning Sunday night into Tuesday. The heaviest rain should fall on Monday as the storm develops. Predicting the type and timing of winter precipitation is always tricky, but the current predicted path of the storm makes it likely that most of the…
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The latest QPF map shows very limited precipitation in the Southeast for the next week. The areas most like to see wet conditions are the mountains and along the East Coast. There is even a limited potential for some light snow as the latest storm develops along the coast, although I don’t expect that we…
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This coming week rain is expected over the Southeast, with the lowest amounts in Florida and the highest amounts stretching from the eastern Gulf of Mexico up the East Coast. This track will bring significant rain to southeastern Georgia, where abnormally dry conditions have lingered over the past few months as they have missed a…
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The National Weather Service has issued a Day 5 Outlook (Tuesday to Wednesday next week) for severe weather which indicates a moderate chance of severe weather. The severe weather includes the chance for strong winds, hail, and tornadoes. Localized heavy rain is also possible. The center of the most likely area is in Alabama and…
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El Niño has been strongly affecting the climate of the Southeast for the past few months, leading to our current wet conditions. While temperatures in December were much warmer than expected for an El Niño winter, since then the Southeast has cooled down to more normal values. Cloudiness this year has also been an issue…
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The storm that brought snow and wintry conditions to some parts of the Southeast has moved up the East Coast and is still hitting DC and New York as I write this, but we should see some respite this weekend after the lingering flurries end. The next storm system should move through the Southeast starting…
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The Climate Prediction Center put out their latest outlooks for February and the rest of the year today. They show that cooler and wetter conditions than normal should continue to dominate the weather of the Southeast for at least February through April. A fter that, there is no indication of any trends in precipitation for…