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One story that I missed posting about earlier this summer is a new climatological study showing that the area where the most tornadoes occurs is shifting east from the traditional Tornado Alley in Oklahoma and the Southern Plains towards the Southeast. Scientists aren’t sure why this is occurring but link it to a movement of…
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Meteorologists have frequently experienced harassment about their forecasts, especially on days when the predictions are difficult and the broadcasters get it wrong, raining on parades or weddings or hayfields. Women meteorologists have especially been targeted for what they wear, how they style their hair, and how much they weigh, and friends in the broadcast field…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has published their latest monthly climate summary for June 2023. You can read it at their blog at Smoke and Storms Fill the Skies in June – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu)
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Anyone who is worried about the potential for rapid development of tropical storms coming onshore in the Southeast should be very concerned about the current incredibly high sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico this week. The map below shows that parts of the Gulf have temperatures above 90 F (32 C in this…
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My friends in southern Florida have been tweeting about the long string of unusually hot days they have been experiencing this year compared to usual. The Weather Channel posted a story earlier this week discussing the heat and linking it to persistent winds blowing around the heat dome that has parked over Texas as well…
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This week Jim Downer, one of my colleagues at The Garden Professors blog, posted an article about how garden plants (and really most plants including crops) respond to very high temperatures. Fortunately, here in the Southeast we have not seem extremely high temperatures here very often this year, but the summer is not over so…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that everyone in the Southeast should get some rain this week, but the amounts may vary depending on where you are. The heaviest rain looks like it will occur in southwestern Alabama and Georgia and the lightest amounts are likely to be in northeast Georgia and northwestern South Carolina.…
Posted in: Climate outlooks