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The latest outlook for May 2019 shows that the entire Southeast has a high probability of being above normal in temperature, with a percentage of more than 50% chance of above normal, 33 % chance of near normal, and just 16 % chance of cooler than normal temperatures for the month. Precipitation along the East…
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You can find the latest monthly climate summary for Florida at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?view=article&id=537. If you wonder why I never post monthly climate summaries for South Carolina, it is because they do weekly climate summaries instead. You can view those at https://www.dnr.sc.gov/climate/sco/ClimateData/cli_reports_2019.php.
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Even though the tropical season in the Atlantic Basin is still a month away, the National Hurricane Center issued their first outlook of the year today for a wave which has a 20% chance of developing into a tropical storm over southern Florida in the next five days. Even though this is not likely to…
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With just a couple of days left in the month, April 2019 is turning out to be warmer than normal in most of the region, with just a few areas in Alabama and Georgia experiencing cooler than normal conditions. Rainfall across the region has been variable, with the largest streak of rain falling in a…
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While a lot of the Southeast has been quite dry in the last few weeks, North Carolina has been fighting wet conditions. This has caused problems for wheat farmers, who are seeing problems with pests like mites and fusarium wilt. Farmers there will need to monitor their crops carefully so they can head off worse…
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One of the arguments against human-induced warming of the earth is that changes in solar output are driving temperature variations. And on a glacial time scale, that is true. But how about more recent changes? The Royal Meteorological Society has a new podcast and briefing paper which addresses this issue and the science behind it.…
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Strong high pressure is expected to dominate the weather in the Southeast this coming week. No rain at all is expected until late in the week, and then only light amounts of less than 1/10th of an inch are predicted. Temperatures should be above normal, which could combine with the lack of rainfall to produce…
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