Climate outlooks
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that there are two weather systems passing through the Southeast this week. The first one will bring some rain to parts of the region starting on Sunday night. By Tuesday, dry and cold weather will return to the area. The next low pressure area starts to move through the…
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UPDATE: The latest forecast shows that the chance of a big Thankgiving storm has largely gone away, leaving fairly tranquil weather across most of the country. Good news! If you are traveling for Thanksgiving, especially to the Midwest or Northeast, you might want to watch the weather forecasts carefully. While it is still too early…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows dry conditions across the region except for Florida through the week. Light rain may occur late in the week into the weekend with the next front to move through the area. Cooler conditions will really make it feel like fall. Frost is likely across a lot of the northern…
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This is the time of year that winter outlooks are published by many different climatologists, meteorologists, and others (we are not even going to talk about the Farmers’ Almanacs, which are not scientific forecasts). One of the meteorologists I like to follow is Kirk Mellish of WSB in Atlanta. I have found he takes the…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina published their winter outlook for the upcoming winter in their blog today. It discusses the impact of the double-dip La Nina that is occurring, the current dry conditions there, and the likelihood of snow. A lot of the discussion is generally relevant to the rest of the Southeast…
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The 7-day QPF map shows that rain should persist along the East Coast for the next day or two from the low that is moving along the coast today. By Tuesday night it should be dry across the region and a bit warmer. That will continue until later on Thursday when the next front begins…
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With October almost in the books, a quick look shows that it was warmer than normal across the region, especially overnight lows. Precipitation varied, with the western areas generally wetter and the eastern areas generally drier. Forecasts for the first two weeks of November show conditions are likely to be cooler and drier than normal,…