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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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I am on the road for Christmas and expect to see 10-15 inches of new snow later this week. Hard to get a blizzard in the Southeast! I will be taking a break from the blog until January 1 to spend time with family and friends. Thank you for your continued interest in this blog,…
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The latest monthly climate summary from NOAA shows that the average temperature for the US was 0.7 F below average and the precipitation was 0.17 inches above average. This puts the country in the middle third of years for both variables. The Southeast was generally warmer and wetter than the rest of the country. Parts…
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Over the course of the last day, Tropical Depression 9 formed in the Atlantic Ocean north of South America and Tropical Depression 10 formed off the west coast of Africa. TD10 subsequently became Tropical Storm Hermine over the course of the day. It poses no threat to us in the Southeast. TD9 struggled a bit…