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NOAA released their latest monthly ENSO outlook earlier this week, and it shows almost no change in the likelihood of a La Nina from last month’s prediction. They expect a weak La Nina to occur any time now and to last for a few months before returning to neutral conditions. The sea surface temperatures in…
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The latest monthly climate statics for the earth as a whole for November 2024 were released earlier this week. The record shows that this November was the second warmest on earth, just beat out by November 2023, which was affected by the warm pool of water related to El Nino. Looking at the year as…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, indicates that dry conditions expanded over a lot of the Florida Peninsula as well as in some locations in South Carolina due to a lack of rain this week. By comparison, a large area in Alabama and smaller areas in northern Georgia and central Tennessee improved due to the…
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NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary earlier this week. In addition to the November data it also shows the statistics for fall (September through November) and the year to date. The data showed that the fall was the warmest since records began in 1895 for the USA and also showed that we are very…
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Satellites have given us the ability to look for patterns over large parts of the globe. Google Earth, which provides these images along with mapping capabilities, has given us the chance to look for patterns like straight lines in the local terrain. In the past, Landsat photos have been used to identify tornado tracks in…
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In the Southeast, El Nino and La Nina affect our local climate, which can influence the yield and condition of crops in our region. But El Nino and La Nina also affect climate in other parts of the world, and using knowledge of what state the El Nino Southern Oscillation is in can be used…
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A storm is expected to move through the Southeast this week, bringing an inch or more of rain to a lot of the region other than the Florida panhandle. The rain will start in Alabama on Sunday and will move east and northeast across the region over the next few days. It will move out…
Posted in: Climate outlooks