Climate outlooks
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We will start the next seven days mostly dry as we are under the influence of a big area of high pressure. By midweek, the next system will start to bring rain to western parts of the region, and that will cover most of the region by late next week, although amounts will be moderate.…
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The updated April 2021 outlook was released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. It shows that warmer and drier than normal conditions are expected across the region for most of the month. If this verifies, we will have to watch carefully for the onset of drought in some areas, since plants are coming out of…
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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…