Climate outlooks
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If you are looking for simple fact sheets on how El Niño will affect your area or other regions around the country, including US territories, NOAA has collected a series of links to fact sheets at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/regional-el-nino-impacts-outlooks-assessments. There are also some links to other El Niño information at this site.
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The Climate Prediction Center posted its latest outlook maps yesterday for December and December through February. The maps are shown below. To interpret these maps, you need to know that the probabilities start out with an equal chance of below normal (33.3%) or lowest third of all values, above normal (33.3%) or upper third of…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina published a blog article today describing winter weather in the years when climatological conditions, particularly with respect to El Niño, were similar to this year. Analog forecasting can give us clues to what to expect for this coming winter, although of course each winter has its own mix…
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Even though the El Niño is still growing towards a new record, climatologists and farmers are starting to look ahead to what the end of El Niño means for production next year. The El Niño is expected to wane starting in spring. In some years it moves to the opposite pattern, called La Niña, and…
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The weather through Tuesday should be sunny and dry for most of the Southeast this week. From Tuesday through Thursday a storm that will bring up to 6 inches to the Arkansas-Missouri region will move through the region. Fortunately, the rain amounts in the Southeast will be less, close to the normal of just under…
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If you’ve been following the weather, you know that a cold front passed through our region in the last few days. It has brought sunnier weather to the area, which is fantastic, but will also be bringing colder weather for the next few days. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has posted Frost Warnings…
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Although it is only 1/3 of the way through the month, so far our region has seen rainfall that is much above normal in many areas, including Georgia. The temperatures across the Southeast have also been above normal everywhere this month, even in the areas that were cloudy and cool from the persistent rain the…