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Happy Independence Day! I hope you had a great day, whatever you did. You might be interested in what the weather was like on the original Independence Day, July 4, 1776. Alicia Wasula of Shade Tree Meteorology noted in her blog this week: While we don’t have nearly as much detail about the weather back…
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This week’s QPF map shows that heavy rain is likely to affect Florida and parts of the East Coast as Elsa moves through the region in the next few days. Elsa, which became a hurricane yesterday but was downgraded back to a tropical storm this morning, is currently forecast to move somewhere up the west…
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The latest monthly climate summary for June 2021 is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/07/rainfall-extremes-in-june-jumble-the-state-drought-map/.
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Tropical Storm Elsa formed early this morning over the Atlantic Ocean. It is the earliest “E” storm on record in the Atlantic Basin. It is also unusual in that it formed from an African easterly wave, way ahead of when that part of the basin usually gets active. In fact, according to Brian McNoldy’s blog…
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June 2021 was wetter and cooler than normal across a lot of the region. The only areas with temperatures warmer than normal were eastern Virginia, southwest Georgia and central Florida. The wettest spots were in western Alabama and eastern North Carolina, while dry conditions were present in western NC and Virginia and parts of southern…
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The latest drought map, released this morning, shows that abnormally dry conditions now cover quite a bit of central North Carolina. Moderate (D1) drought has expanded there and also slightly in Virginia. All abnormally dry conditions have been removed from Georgia and are reduced in Florida and South Carolina. Rain this weekend and potentially next…
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UPDATE: This is now TS Elsa. The National Hurricane Center has started to send out alerts for Potential Tropical Cyclone 5, which is out in the Atlantic Ocean and has a 90 percent chance of becoming a named storm in the next five days. The model runs are all over the place, with potential landfalls…