Climate outlooks
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Confidence is high that next week is going to be very cold across most of the region. Temperatures are likely to drop below freezing in nearly all of the region other than southern Florida and Puerto Rico several mornings from Monday through Thursday (depending on location and the final strength of the storm) and some…
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Once again, ominous maps of heavy snow bands across parts of the Southeast are starting to appear on social media. I am already getting questions about these snow maps just like we did with the last big storm. This is a good reminder that you should never trust a snow map more than a couple…
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As we wave goodbye to the last winter storm that moved through our region yesterday and today, we are starting to look ahead to the next storm that is expected to form soon in the Gulf Coast and move towards us in the Southeast before curving up to the Mid-Atlantic. There is still a lot…
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The first big winter storm of the 2024-2025 winter is building in Oklahoma as I write this on Saturday night. This storm is expected to move west to east across the eastern half of the US over the next two days, bringing areas of freezing rain and snow to parts of the Mid-Atlantic and the…
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Over the last few days I have received several questions about media reports of much colder weather that is expected to move into the Southeast over the next couple of weeks. In many cases this has been tied to ominous pictures of snowfall maps showing up to a foot of snow falling in one location…
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The latest monthly climate outlook for January 2025 was released earlier this week by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. It shows that colder than normal conditions are likely across most of the Southeast. Precipitation does not show a trend to wetter or drier than usual conditions and will be highly dependent on the development of storms…
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The latest 7-day QPF map released today shows that there will not be a lot of rain or snow in the next week for most of the region. The next two days should be dry, then a storm system along the East Coast will start to drop some rain on day 3 (Monday into Tuesday).…
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