Climate outlooks
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that while most of the Southeast will get rain this week, most of the Florida peninsula will stay warm and dry, which could increase the drought there on next week’s Drought Monitor map. One storm will bring rain to northern AL and GA and the mountains later this weekend,…
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Spring has sprung, and everything around my house is blooming, which means lots of pollen! The warm weather has come on with abandon after a winter that had some fairly cold conditions, although nothing compared to what our friends in the central US and Texas experienced. In this article I will discuss why our winter…
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This weekend we will see a coastal storm off the East Coast bring rain inland to areas along that region, although the heaviest rain will remain offshore. By mid-week, a new storm will form near the Gulf of Mexico and bring heavy rain to parts of Alabama and far western Florida. That storm will progress…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued its April and April-June outlooks today for 2021. They show that for April, warmer and drier conditions than usual are expected, while for the April through June period, warmer than normal conditions are expected but there is no clear signal for precipitation for most of the region, leading to a…
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Here is a long (45 minutes) and detailed video made available by AgWeb on YouTube. The talk was given by Eric Snodgrass of Nutrien Ag Solutions at the 2021 Top Producer Summit in mid-February, so some of the current information is a little old, but it’s a great overview of last year’s growing season and…
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Two quick-moving storms will bring several inches of rain to northern parts of the Southeast this week, while southern areas are mostly dry. The first storm, which is bringing heavy snow to the Denver area this weekend, will push into the Southeast by Tuesday morning, bringing our first batch of rain. A trailing front across…
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The latest ENSO outlook was released today. It shows that La Nina is still hanging on now, but that neutral conditions are expected to return later this spring and last through summer. The current forecast for next fall and winter is for La Nina to return in a “double dip”, which happens fairly frequently with…