Climate outlooks

  • 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…

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  • peanut shell on cracked, dry land

    Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar + Spring Flood Outlook Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 10 am ET/9 am CT Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic…

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  • I don’t think I have posted the outlook for March yet. Here is an article from Climate.gov that explains their March 2021 outlook. For the eastern half of the country including the Southeast, temperatures are more likely to be above normal, while precipitation will be more variable, with Florida expected to be drier than normal…

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  • In a switch from the weather pattern for the past few weeks, the heaviest rain this week is expected to be in Florida, with little to no rain expected in most of the rest of the region. Some areas in northern GA and AL are now starting to look a little dry, and there is…

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  • More rounds of rain this week are expected in most areas of the Southeast except for the Florida Peninsula. The heaviest rain is expected to be in Alabama and western Georgia, with lighter amounts elsewhere. The Florida Peninsula should see only light amounts of rain, which could lead to the potential expansion of abnormally dry…

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  • Not much rain this week

    For a change we will have a fairly dry week in most of the Southeast, with just one storm late in the week bringing a streak of 1/2 to 1 inch of rain across parts of the region. The rest of the region should see less than half an inch. I think most of us…

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