Climate outlooks
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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…
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I subscribe to a number of weather blogs across the country, and found a couple of forecasts for the Southeast that do a good job of describing the expected conditions for this winter. Brad Panovich of WCNC in Charlotte provides a graphics-filled outlook that explains the impacts of El Niño on the winter weather patterns…
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The latest 5-day QPF map shows that the next five days should be quite dry across most of the Southeast, bringing cheer to water-logged farmers in many parts of the region except southeast Georgia and Florida, where rainfall has been scarce. Early next week, after that respite, the rain is expected to make a comeback…
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After a wet week in north Georgia and Alabama, many people are eager to get back to drier conditions. The rain has been centered on Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas; by comparison, if you live in the Florida peninsula you have been almost completely dry and might appreciate some moisture. In Athens GA we are…
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The November outlook for climate across the United States is out and shows that the Southeast has a high probability of having above normal temperatures and precipitation for the month as a whole. You can view these maps along with 3 month outlooks at the Climate Prediction Center website https://www.cpc.noaa.gov/.
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NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information published a new article this week on the historical comparisons between the current strong El Niño and previous ones. You can read it at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/dyk/elnino-2015-2016. The article displays the difference between each of the historical El Niño years so you can see the year to year variation in where…