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Do you ever hear people say that the weather app was wrong about the forecast? In some cases it might be true, but more often it means that they don’t understand how a weather app works and what it can (and can’t) tell you. Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA addresses this in a Forbes posting…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region can expect a fairly rainy week ahead. The driest period will be mid-week, with rain chances higher on either end. The driest region will be eastern North Carolina and adjoining South Carolina and Virginia, which will be largely missed by the rain events. The…
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As of 11 pm on Friday night, Tropical Storm Earl formed in the western Atlantic Ocean. The current forecast is for Earl to curve to the north and then northeast without hitting any land. It is not expected to become a hurricane but to remain a tropical storm. Folks along the East Coast might want…
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Today Hurricane Danielle formed in the central Atlantic, far from land over a patch of unusually warm water much farther north than most hurricanes form. This is the first hurricane named in 2022 but probably will not be the last. Danielle is not a threat to land, although remnants of Danielle might eventually bring some…
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Today is the first day of climatological (or as some people call it, meteorological) fall, which starts on September 1 and goes through November 30. Of course, here in the Southeast, it can still feel like summer for another month or more depending on where you are, but lower humidity the last day has felt…
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The latest monthly outlook for September 2022 were released yesterday. The outlook shows that wetter than normal conditions are expected in September, especially early in the month. The temperature is expected to be warmer than normal in most of the region, with Alabama not leaning towards either warmer or cooler than normal. This is most…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows generally small changes in drought and dry conditions across the region. The tiny area of D2 severe drought in far NW Alabama is now gone, and the area covered by abnormally dry conditions has also decreased. In Florida, the area of drought decreased but the coverage of…
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