Climate outlooks
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WALB reports that after a dry few days, fields in Southwest Georgia are drying out and farmers are catching up on field work, which has been running about two weeks behind normal. For details, click here to read the story. Meanwhile, forecasts for this Memorial Day weekend indicate that temperatures on Memorial Day weekend could…
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After a wet weekend across most of the Southeast, the weather should quiet down for the next few days. Temperatures will slowly rise and precipitation is not expected until late in the week. Even though some precipitation will fall, amounts are generally expected to be light. Near normal temperatures and below normal rainfall should continue…
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David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, sends this report: North Florida including the Panhandle, south Alabama, and southwest Georgia have experienced a very wet spring this year, topped off by the flooding rains that hit the Pensacola and Mobile area on April 28-30. But the recent rainfall is just the latest in a string of…
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So far May has been feast or famine for rainfall in the Southeast. I saw standing water on the fields in northern Florida into southern Georgia as I drove back from Tallahassee to Athens last week, but dust clouds as I got close to home. This map shows the rankings of the month-to-date…
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The warm pool of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean continues to move eastward, increasing chances for an El Nino to develop later this summer into fall. In winter, El Nino causes wet and cool conditions in south Georgia as the subtropical jet stream shifts right over the state, bringing clouds and plentiful precipitation with…
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The five-day forecast for rainfall across the Southeast looks clear and dry throughout the region. This lack of precipitation, coupled with warm temperatures reaching up into the 90s in some places, should mean great conditions for farmers trying to get into their fields after all the recent rain. Next chance of rain for many parts…
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NOAA has just released the latest monthly outlook for May precipitation and temperature for the US. It shows that for the Southeast, warmer than normal conditions have a slightly increased likelihood in south Florida as well as in northern Georgia and Alabama, while wetter than normal conditions have a slightly increased likelihood of occurring in…
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