Climate outlooks
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The latest monthly and seasonal outlooks for May 2025 and May-July 2025 were released by NOAA earlier this week. They show that while May will continue to show a little of the signal from the La Nina that recently went away, including warmer and drier conditions being slightly more likely in southern parts of the…
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The weather pattern that we are currently in has a big high pressure center over the southern part of the region. This is preventing any development of rain in most of the region except northern Alabama and North Carolina and Virginia. This pattern will keep most of the Southeast dry this week except for a…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that nearly dry conditions will occur this week over most of the region. There could be some light showers on Monday night into Tuesday morning in the mountains and in parts of Virginia and North Carolina, but they are not expected to amount to much. This may continue into…
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As I sit here at home on Sunday night, I can hear heavy rain falling outside my window. If you live in Alabama or western Georgia, you saw a lot of rain earlier today, and as of tonight it is now moving into the Carolinas and Virginia. Overnight and during the day on Monday, this…
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The latest monthly outlook for April 2025 was released a few days ago. It shows that April is likely to be warmer than normal across the region as we continue to see the weak La Nina affecting our local climate. The rainfall is not showing a tendency in the central region but there is a…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the rain in the next week will fall over Sunday and Monday as two lines of storms move through the area on Sunday and Monday. Some scattered severe weather is expected from the storms, although there will be more to our northwest where the most suitable…
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Update: Slides are now available at https://site.extension.uga.edu/climate/files/2025/03/2024-growing-season-and-2025-outlook-march-28-2025-slides.pdf. The video is at https://youtu.be/HnsnUvNcW3k. I am planning to do a webinar on Friday, March 28, at 10:00 am EDT with a review of last year’s climate and a look ahead to the 2025 growing season. It will focus on Georgia but will also cover the Southeast more…