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As expected, NOAA’s forecast for the upcoming 2019 tropical season in the Atlantic Ocean basin shows that they think that the season should have close to an average number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the region. This is based on several indicators, including the current weak status of El Niño. You can read the…
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As expected, the moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions have expanded across a lot of the Southeast in the past week. Little rainfall coupled with much warmer than normal temperatures have caused the expansion of abnormally dry conditions in eastern North Carolina and in parts of Alabama. Conditions in Florida and South Carolina stayed steady,…
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The latest forecast for the North Atlantic Ocean was released today by the U. K. Met Office. It says that they expect a total number of named storms of 13, just slightly above the long-term average of 12 storms. NOAA will be releasing its own forecast soon, and I don’t expect it to be much…
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While we here in the Southeast have been very dry after a fairly wet winter, agricultural producers in the central US are being inundated by wave after wave of wet weather, and more (up to 9 inches in some places) is expected in the next week, which may prevent farmers there from even getting a…
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week on crop conditions in Georgia, Florida and Alabama going into the end of May based on reports from the Weekly Crop Bulletins from USDA Ag Statistics. While most crop planting is about ten percent ahead of normal, the torrid and dry conditions that…
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Today the National Hurricane Center announced the formation of Subtropical Storm Andrea in the western Atlantic. It’s moving away from the US so no threat to us, although it could bring rain and gusty winds to Bermuda. This is the fifth May in a row with a named storm that occurred before the official start…
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The latest global climate summary from NOAA for April 2019 was released today. It shows that April 2019 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, surpassed only by 2016. The January through April period is the 3rd warmest on record, after 2016 and 2017. The top five highest year to date temperature averages…
Posted in: Climate summaries