Climate outlooks
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most areas of the Southeast will see some rain this week but most areas will only see showers, not significant amounts. A system moving out of the northern region today is bringing a little snow to higher elevations and some rain to NC and VA. Midweek, the northern…
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The latest seasonal outlooks for the US were released by NOAA earlier this week. They show that the El Nino pattern of warm north, cool south is likely to continue through at least March. After that, the Southeast may return to values close to normal, or at least the seasonal forecast does not show the…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the rain from the system that is currently in the region is moving south and is now in southern GA and AL and into Florida, where the front will stall over the next few days. That will bring a lot of rain to the Sunshine State,…
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If you live in or near Florida or are just interested in what is happening in that part of the Southeast, you may want to listen to or read this story from WUSF featuring David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist. In this piece, he describes the record-setting temperatures in Florida in 2023 and the outlook…
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Once again, rain is expected to fall across a lot of the Southeast this weekend with the latest storm system moving across the region from west to east. On Saturday rain will fall mostly in the western sections of the Southeast, but the front will move to the east overnight, bringing rain to areas farther…
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Even though we are still in a strong El Nino, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued a La Nina watch today for the expected swing from our current ENSO phase through neutral to the opposite phase, La Nina, by mid-summer. The speed at which the atmosphere transitions from one phase to another will determine what kinds…
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I’ve been getting a few emails asking about the current warm weather and if it is likely to continue since growers are concerned about bud break if the warm weather continues. I put a thermograph of daily temperatures for Blairsville below to show how temperatures have changed over time. On the thermograph, the green band…