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The Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post had an excellent article about weather forecasting myths in this week’s column (link here). Maybe you’re guilty of propagating some of these myths yourself. Do you ever say that meteorologists are usually wrong? Or use the Farmers’ Almanac to get weather predictions months in advance? Or say…
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I woke up this morning to the sound of rain mixed with a little thunder as the cold front is getting near. The rain out ahead of it was falling pretty hard as I emptied my CoCoRaHS rain gauge. Once the front passes, much colder air will enter the state, eventually dropping temperatures into the…
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The next rain system is moving through the Southeast this weekend, bringing wet conditions to most of the region. Once this system moves past, much colder air should blow back into the region by midweek. In some areas low temperatures will reach the teens and highs may not even reach the freezing point, so if…
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EarthSky magazine noted today that tonight the Earth will reach its closest point in its orbit to the sun, right around 1:30 am EST on the 4th. You can read about it here. Many people think that winter is caused by how far our planet is from the sun, but really the seasons are caused…
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The latest Drought Monitor report came out on Thursday and shows that most drought in the Southeast is gone due to recent rains. Only a small area around Mobile Bay in AL is still showing moderate drought. You can see the latest Drought Monitor at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/RegionalDroughtMonitor.aspx?southeast. This often happens over the winter, when evaporation is low…
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The climate summary for North Carolina for December 2014 has now been posted. You can find it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=112&h=5666e5c1.
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Reports from weather observers are still coming in for the end of 2014, but there are some preliminary results for 2014. The temperatures across the Southeast were generally near to below normal for the year, but fairly mild compared to the region of very cold temperatures in the Great Lakes and the hot conditions in…