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As a meteorologist, I have many friends who work as forecasters or in other jobs for the National Weather Service or its home agency, NOAA. It’s been a busy week for these folks, and they do it carefully and at all hours of the day and night to keep us safe. This in spite of…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that heavy rain should occur across most of the region this week with two major storms moving through the area. On Saturday the first storm plows through, bringing a lot of rain with some wind and potentially even some severe weather to parts of the Southeast. Dry conditions should…
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Stu Ostro of the Weather Channel posted a set of the most amazing weather images from 2018 at the end of the year. If you have not had the chance to view them yet, take a few minutes to see some of the spectacular views of weather from earth last year. You can view them…
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One of the stories I noticed over Christmas break was a detailed story from the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting on the lingering impacts of Hurricane Irma, which hit Florida in 2017. Even though it has been a long time since the storm hit, some of the more vulnerable populations are still trying to recover…
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The latest climate outlooks for February and February-through-April were released today (in spite of the government shutdown, and thanks to the NOAA folk who are working without paychecks at the moment to produce them!). The map shows that February is leaning towards colder temperatures than normal across Georgia, with drier than normal conditions a bit…
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With the continued lack of rainfall in the Florida peninsula, an area of severe (D2) drought has been added to the Drought Monitor map this week. The severe drought stretches along the east coast northeast of Lake Okeechobee. Rainfall in the next week will probably keep things unchanged in next week’s map. No drought elsewhere…
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Here is an interesting site that shows what your weather will be like over the next few days by plotting the results of several different weather models side by side. When the models agree, the lines are all close together, indicating good agreement. When they diverge, then you know the models are less certain. In…