Climate outlooks
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The tropics are the stars of this week’s rain forecast. TD Fred is expected to bring a lot of rain to Florida early this week, and then the focus mid-week will shift to northern GA and parts of the Carolinas and perhaps Virginia. The amount and timing of the rain depends tremendously on where the…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most parts of the region will get little rain in the next week, which is sure to make farmers in most areas happy after all the rain we have been seeing. The wettest area will be the Florida peninsula and the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, especially in…
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NOAA released a story about their latest monthly climate outlook earlier this week. You can read it at https://climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/august-2021-us-climate-outlook-rains-continue-across-southeast. Sadly, it does not look like much relief for the drought-stricken farmers in the west. That also means with the pattern locked in place, the Southeast is likely to continue to see wetter than normal conditions.…
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NOAA released their updated outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season today. It shows that there is a 65% chance of an above-normal number of storms this season and only a 10% chance it will be less than normal. Considering how many storms we have already had (5), this is not a surprise. NOAA predicts 15-21…
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After a couple of hot days, the beginning of August is expected to be cooler and wetter than normal, especially across the southern half of Georgia, as a nearly stationary front is expected to sit over the area for a lot of the week. This means lower temperatures, especially during the day, less solar radiation,…
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The latest monthly outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center shows that wetter than normal conditions are likely to continue in August for all of the Southeast except the southern half of Florida. Temperature is mostly equal chances of near, above or below normal except for slight leans towards warmer than normal in southern Florida and…
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