Climate outlooks
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released their final outlook for November yesterday. It shows that for the Southeast, warmer and drier conditions than normal are expected through the month, although there will be some cold periods, including tomorrow morning, which see frost in northern and more elevated parts of the region. This is expected due to…
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The latest 7-day QPF shows that most of the country will see no rain at all this week, including Election Day on Tuesday. The exceptions are rain in the Pacific Northwest later in the week as well as some light rain along the East Coast. So the weather this year will not be an excuse…
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October 2020 is almost over. The maps from the High Plain Regional Climate Center are showing that precipitation across the region is pretty close to normal, with above normal values in the northern half where tropical rain has fallen, and below normal amounts in the southern half. Temperatures across the region have been quite a…
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Zeta weakened today as it passed over the Yucatan, but it is expected to strengthen back to hurricane force before making landfall somewhere between New Orleans and Mobile sometime on Wednesday afternoon or evening. After landfall it will accelerate to the northeast–by the time it is over northern GA it will be moving at 30…
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Hurricane Zeta formed today and is headed towards the Yucatan peninsula, where it is expected to make landfall south of Cancun before moving NE into the Gulf of Mexico. It will move north and then northeast as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday afternoon. It is not clear if it will be a…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that this coming week will be quite a bit rainier than the last couple due to the passage of what is likely to be Tropical Storm Zeta (now tropical depression 28) mid-week. The heaviest rain from Zeta should fall in parts of Alabama and Georgia Tuesday night through Thursday…
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The long-range forecasts are beginning to show a strong cold front passing through the Southeast late in October, ushering a period of much colder air which could include frost across northern Alabama and Georgia as well as western parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. Some of the mountainous areas have already seen some frost conditions,…
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