• Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar + Spring Flood Outlook Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 10 am ET/9 am CT Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic…

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  • I don’t think I have posted the outlook for March yet. Here is an article from Climate.gov that explains their March 2021 outlook. For the eastern half of the country including the Southeast, temperatures are more likely to be above normal, while precipitation will be more variable, with Florida expected to be drier than normal…

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  • In a switch from the weather pattern for the past few weeks, the heaviest rain this week is expected to be in Florida, with little to no rain expected in most of the rest of the region. Some areas in northern GA and AL are now starting to look a little dry, and there is…

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  • If you’ve been reading this blog for long enough, you know that March is the month that we go cuckoo for CoCoRaHS! For those who don’t know, the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network is a group of citizen scientists who collect daily rainfall using an official CoCoRaHS rain gauge and report it on…

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  • Here is an educational resource for middle school teachers and others who work with kids that age. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with six other federal agencies—National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA, NASA, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management—developed a kit to aid educators in teaching how climate…

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  • The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows that the area of moderate (D1) drought in southwest Alabama has more than doubled in size since last week’s map. Areas of abnormally dry (D0) conditions have also expanded. With no rain expected in the next week, it would not surprise me if we see further expansions…

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  • I’ve heard many complaints about this year’s winter forecast and how far off it was. Here is an excellent discussion of how seasonal forecasts are made and how they can be off. They show that for what we knew in November, a typical La Nina pattern was the most reasonable forecast. The things that changed…

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