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As you know, the past few weeks have been exceptionally dry for the Southeast, even in October, which is generally the driest month of the year. A number of stations have not received one drop of rain this month, and that is expected to continue for the next week except for an area in South…
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The latest 7-day QPF map for the Southeast shows that there will be very little rain in Alabama and Georgia this week until perhaps late in the week. There will be more rain in the Florida Peninsula and in Virginia and northern North Carolina. However, there is a lot of uncertainty with this because it…
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Because I am tired of talking about the potential for a hurricane in the Gulf next week, here is some counterprogramming–a review of the (fairly) new Twisters movie, which was released about a month ago. It was written by a friend of mine, Barb Mayes Boustead, who is a severe weather specialist and someone who…
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A low pressure center with the potential to become a tropical or subtropical storm is developing along the South Carolina coast tonight. If it becomes a named storm, it would become Helene since Gordon is already falling apart in the central Atlantic. Even if it does not get named, it is likely to bring quite…
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about why the Atlantic hurricane season recently has been strangely inactive considering we are currently near the climatological peak of activity. It is even more puzzling because all of the forecasts for the season were for well-above-normal activity, with the possibility of 17-25 named storms, and we started…
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The latest 7-day QPF forecast (Quantitative Precipitation Forecast) for rainfall in the next 7 days shows that we are returning to a rainier state over the next week after a slow increase in drought conditions for the past couple of weeks. A pair of fronts are supposed to move through the area this weekend, bringing…
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April 2023 was wetter than normal over a lot of the region. Temperature varied a lot, with the warmest temperatures in Florida and along the coast and the coolest temperatures were in Alabama, northern Georgia and western South Carolina. The areas that were the warmest generally corresponded with the areas in drought. The extreme rain…
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