Climate outlooks
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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…
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The latest 7-day QPF shows that like last week, the wettest areas of the Southeast will be near or off the coast, both in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. The driest areas will be in South and North Carolina, but all areas should receive some rain. Most of the rain will either…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the heaviest rain for the next week is expected off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico with an extension into southern Florida. Other areas of the Southeast will receive more moderate amounts of around an inch near the coasts and a half to one inch farther inland.…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their climate summary for December 2015 at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=170&h=5666e5c1. They also have an discussion on the outlook for the rest of winter which covers the Southeast, so you may want to read it even if you live outside of North Carolina.
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Many of you are probably sick of the rain that has been falling for the past two weeks, at least in the wet areas of the Southeast. You will be happy to know that most of the storms that pass through the area in the next week are expected to drop the majority of their…
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