Climate outlooks
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most parts of the region are likely to experience less than an inch of rain this week, with the most likely times midweek but scattered chances throughout the period. The wildcard is Investigation 90, an area of potential tropical development now located east of Florida that has a…
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Most of the region will see rain amounts that are close to the weekly average. The majority of the rain will fall before Monday night except in south Florida, which will see rain all week. The driest area will be northern Virginia. Daily scattered showers will fall across the area but most will be relatively…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center put out their monthly and 3-month climate predictions today. The monthly forecast for August shows that some parts of the region lean slightly towards warmer than normal conditions, while other parts lean towards wetter than normal conditions. The August through October period shows a stronger tendency towards warmer and wetter conditions…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that while there will be scattered showers across the Southeast this week, most areas will not see a lot of rain. The wettest areas will be in the mountains and in southern Florida, where storms may be more frequent. In other areas, there will be a chance of rain…
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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…