Climate outlooks
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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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NOAA released their latest outlook for December and for December through January today. The new forecasts are not a big change from previous forecasts, and the 3-month winter forecast is still leaning towards the development of a weak El Nino, with wetter than normal conditions expected in the southern part of the Southeast along the…
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Even though it seems too cold to ever worry about severe weather again, the Southeast will undergo significant warming over the next few days, reaching up to 70 degrees by Sunday. As the warm air flows back in ahead of a cold front, the chances of rain and thunderstorms, some even reaching severe levels, will…