Climate outlooks
-
The latest 7-day QPF forecast this week shows that nearly all of the region will be dry this week. The exception is Florida, which is expected to be affected by soon-to-be Hurricane Milton early and mid-week as it is likely to make landfall somewhere along the west coast. Like Helene, there is expected to be…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
The latest monthly climate outlook for October 2024 shows a large area of warmer and drier than normal conditions covering much of the continental US in the next month. This is likely to lead to the expansion of drought in those areas. The Southeast is on the edge of the warmer than normal conditions in…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region will have relatively light rainfall for the next seven days, with the biggest rain amounts falling in South Florida and in North Carolina and Virginia. The big question mark is the end of the period, when a tropical storm or hurricane may be approaching…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
If you have been following the ENSO forecasts, you already know that we were in an El Nino last winter and that we are currently in neutral conditions headed for a La Nina later this year. NOAA released their latest monthly and seasonal forecasts today, and they show the very typical pattern of temperature and…
-
I can hear it raining outside my window this morning in Athens, but once this rain moves through over the weekend, we should see a mostly dry week for north Georgia and western parts of the Carolinas and Virginia, with most of the rain focused on areas along the coasts. The rain today is associated…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
The rainfall that is expected over the next week has increased slightly as the area of low pressure in the western Gulf becomes more organized. The low, now dubbed Investigation 91 (see related post for more on this), has a 70% chance of developing into a named storm over the next week as it moves…
-
A pesky low (not a tropical storm, just a mass of moist air below TS levels) in the western Gulf of Mexico is expected to move towards the east over the next few days, bringing abundant moisture to the southern portions of Alabama and Georgia along with South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. Georgia is…
Posted in: Climate outlooks