Climate outlooks
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Growing conditions overall for the Southeast have been relatively good so far this year. Since April 1, most of the Southeast has been a little cooler than normal, except for the Florida Peninsula. Rainfall, as usual, has been variable, but generally most areas in Alabama, southern Georgia, and northern Florida have been fairly wet, although…
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This week’s QPF map shows that heavy rain is likely to affect Florida and parts of the East Coast as Elsa moves through the region in the next few days. Elsa, which became a hurricane yesterday but was downgraded back to a tropical storm this morning, is currently forecast to move somewhere up the west…
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UPDATE: This is now TS Elsa. The National Hurricane Center has started to send out alerts for Potential Tropical Cyclone 5, which is out in the Atlantic Ocean and has a 90 percent chance of becoming a named storm in the next five days. The model runs are all over the place, with potential landfalls…
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The latest outlook for July 2021, released today, shows that for most of the Southeast, temperatures are leaning towards cooler than normal conditions. The exceptions are the southern half of the Florida Peninsula and the east coast of North Carolina and Virginia. Most of the region is also expected to be wetter than normal in…
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Over the last day, an area of disturbed weather has developed in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda and is moving westward towards the US East Coast. It is still pretty weak but has a 50 percent chance of developing over the next five days. Realistically, if it is going to develop, it has about one…
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It’s going to be a very nice week coming up! While we will get more humid as air from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic flows back into the area, temperatures will remain mild with no big heat events coming, unlike the West. We are likely to see some daily afternoon showers and thunderstorms…
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The latest seasonal outlooks were released from NOAA last week. They show that July 2021 is expected to be wetter than normal but there is no signal in temperature except a slight lean toward warmer than normal conditions in the eastern part of the region. The next two weeks are expected to be cooler than…
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