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A messy area of low pressure off the coast of Florida this week is drifting west and is expected to bring some rain to coastal areas of northeast Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina early this week. The low has only a small chance of developing into a tropical depression, so winds are not expected to…
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There have been many stories about extreme weather around the world in the news over the last few weeks. Here are a couple that you might not have seen. Phys.org: Glacial melt in High Mountain Asia accelerating as summers warm Science: Europe’s deadly floods leave scientists stunned All About Feed: Abnormal heatwave in Russia threatens…
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Does the moon or sun look a little hazy to you this weekend? If so, it’s most likely because the plume of smoky air from the forest fires out west has made it over the Southeast in the last day. This image shows where the smoke is located today. You can expect it to hang…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most parts of the region are likely to experience less than an inch of rain this week, with the most likely times midweek but scattered chances throughout the period. The wildcard is Investigation 90, an area of potential tropical development now located east of Florida that has a…
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It’s hard to think about forest fires in the Southeast this year with all the rain we have had, but it was not that many years ago that fires were a terrible reality. I remember walking out of my office in northeast GA smelling the smoke in 2016 from the fires in the mountains to…
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In this blog I tend to focus on the relationship between the phase of ENSO (El Nino or La Nina or neutral) and what climate conditions are likely to happen here in the Southeast as well as how those conditions will affect our crops. But ENSO actually affects weather across the whole globe, so if…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows, that most areas of abnormally dry (D0) conditions remain the same, but that a small area of moderate (D1) drought was added to central Virginia this week. There were no changes to the Puerto Rico map, either. With relatively light amounts of rain expected in the next…
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