Climate outlooks
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NOAA’s website Climate.gov has just released a short video describing how one Alabama farmer uses climate forecasts to improve his farm operation. Their blurb and the links to two versions of the video are below: “Alabama grower Myron Johnson talks about how learning to use seasonal outlooks for rain and temperature has made his operation…
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December 1 marks the beginning of meteorological winter. After one of the coldest Novembers in recent memory, the beginning of December should bring quite a change to the Southeast. The weather patterns are starting to show signs of the expected El Nino signal, and most of the US should see temperatures above normal for the…
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The wind map for tonight shows a strong frontal boundary just about to hit Dallas this evening and stretching up to Columbus OH. You can see it as a sharp transition of wind direction from winds from the south ahead of the front (which gave us our nice warm weather today) and the strong flow…
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Looks like another dry week for most of the Southeast. The 7-day Qualitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) shows no rain or snow for the majority of the Southeast. The exceptions are northern Alabama and Georgia, western SC and most of NC and a little bit of southeast coastal Florida. Since this is the driest time of…
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Based on the outlooks for temperature and precipitation from the Climate Prediction Center, it looks like the weather may be changing early in December to something warmer and wetter. The maps for the 6-10 day outlook (November 28-Dec 2) show an increased chance of cooler and drier conditions than normal, while the maps for the 8-14 day…
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After a beautiful Saturday for most of the Southeast, heavy rain should fall across most of the region. Some areas could see as much as four inches. Some areas in southern Georgia and Alabama could see severe weather on Sunday, including strong wind gusts and isolated tornadoes. As the low moves through the Southeast, the area…
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The State Climate office of North Carolina published a blog article today which describes some global patterns that can affect winter weather. In the past, we’ve looked at the impacts of El Nino and La Nina. But there are other patterns which can also steer climate patterns into colder or warmer patterns that may become…
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