Climate outlooks
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Keith Carson wrote an entertaining article on his blog about seasonal forecasts. You can read it here. After a satire site printed a map showing an outlook for a very cold winter in the East that went viral, meteorologists spent a lot of time shooting down the “made-up” forecast. Keith talks about this and how…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has just posted their summer summary along with an outlook for fall. You can read it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=98&h=37a460a0. They include an outlook for fall colors, so if you are traveling to the area, you might want to take a peek.
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Georgia was close to normal in temperature for summer 2014. Most stations reported temperatures within one degree of normal, with slightly below normal temperatures dominating in the wetter northern half of the state and slightly above normal temperatures occurring in the drier southern half. Precipitation amounts were drier than normal across most of the state,…
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The 7-day QPF map below shows that northern Georgia and much of Alabama will receive below normal rainfall (normal is roughly an inch a week) but southern Georgia into Florida and the eastern Carolinas should receive more rain this week. The heavier rains in Georgia are predicted to fall over the areas that are now…
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The six to ten day outlook for temperatures in the US (from www.cpc.noaa.gov) shows a large area of much below normal temperatures in the Northern Plains, leading to some concerns about an early frost along the US-Canada border. If it happened, it would have the potential to drive corn prices up significantly. AgWeb published two…
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As expected, drought expanded slightly across the Southeast this week in response to hot temperatures and little rain. The percent of the Southwest covered by severe drought expanded from 1.6 to 2.3 percent, all in southern Georgia. Rainfall amounts for the next week should be closer to normal, although the heaviest amounts will occur…
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The latest 7-day outlook for rainfall issued today shows most of the Southeast in below normal rainfall for the next week. This is a continuation of the pattern that has been persisting across the region for the last several weeks and does not bode well for reduction of dry conditions across the area. The only…
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