Climate outlooks
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The latest 7 day QPF map shows wet conditions across all of the Southeast, which should help to remove some of the dry conditions that have spread across the region in recent weeks. Saturday will be the driest day for most of the region, with rain forecast to occur almost every day after that across…
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Many news sources have been providing stories on the current strong El Nino and its likely impacts on various parts of the world. For example, Discover magazine and many others have compared this El Nino to the record El Nino of 1997-1998, and many scientists feel the current one may end up even stronger than that…
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This week’s 7 day precipitation forecast shows that after a nice dry weekend across most of the area, some rain will return on Monday. However, the amounts will be light. The heaviest and most persistent rain will be in central Florida near the remains of a weak front and should last for most of the…
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The latest 7-day QPF forecast shows that much of the coastline of the Southeast (with the exception of southern Florida) will receive ample rain in the next week. The stalled front which has caused tremendous rainfall in the last week along the west coast of peninsular Florida is not expected to move much in the…
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NOAA has released the temperature and precipitation outlooks for August 2015 and for August through October across the US. The outlook for August shows a slightly increased chance of above normal temperatures in portions of the Southeast, particularly in south Florida. There is no indication of an increased chance of wetter or drier than normal…
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A stalled front across the Florida peninsula will bring heavy rain to the Sunshine state this week. As much as eight inches could fall, according to the latest QPF map. Other areas will receive lesser amounts, mainly on Tuesday and later in the week. The presence of the front could help lead to the development…
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If you did not get a chance to try the “do it yourself” long range forecasts I mentioned this past weekend, here is a look at the next week’s rainfall. In a switch from earlier this season, when most of the rain was falling in the northern part of the Southeast away from the coast,…
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