Climate outlooks
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I’ve started to get questions about whether or not we have seen our last frost for this spring after the warm winter we have just finished. However, it is still well before the average date of last spring frost for most parts of the region except for the Florida Peninsula, so climatologically it seems unlikely…
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After a dry weekend, rain returns to inland parts of the Southeast on Monday, with rain continuing through mid-week before tapering off by week’s end. The pattern of wet north, dry south continues again this week, with the northern and western edges of the region in the Tennessee River Valley seeing the potential for several…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has a new outlook video available on YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZctPAgXnU&feature=youtu.be .
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Some recent articles have suggested that after being in ENSO-neutral conditions for quite a while now (albeit on the warm side of neutral), the eastern Pacific Ocean is headed towards a cooler pattern associated with the La Niña cold phase of the Southern Oscillation. If this does occur, we can expect a more active Atlantic…
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The latest monthly and seasonal outlooks from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center were released this week. They show that March could be colder than normal across the region except for southern Florida, while precipitation is likely to be above normal across the southern half of the region. For the March through May period, the region as…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that the storm track which has dumped so much rain on northern parts of the region is shifting south this week. The heaviest rain amounts are likely to be mid-week and located closer to the coast in southern Alabama and Georgia and…
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The month is halfway over, and for most of the month we have been locked in a pattern of wet conditions in northern sections of the Southeast and dry conditions in Florida and southern Georgia. Unfortunately for both regions, this pattern is expected to continue…