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This week’s Drought Monitor shows an area of exceptional drought (D4) was added to south-central Georgia and northern Florida this week as conditions continue to be very warm and dry in that region. Drought did improve in Alabama, northern Georgia and North Carolina, but also got worse in western Virginia. In Alabama, dry conditions were…
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A strong and quick-moving cold front will be moving through the region Sunday night through Monday night, bringing the chance of severe weather ahead of the front and along the line of storms. There is some indication in the models that severe weather could occur well out ahead of the front in places like NE…
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The 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region will see only moderate amounts of rain, and looking at the daily breakdown shows that almost all of it will fall by Monday, with dry conditions for the rest of the week as the really cold air moves in. There’s a separate post about the…
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Since we are halfway through the month, I thought we should take a look at the monthly statistics so far. For most of the region, the temperatures have been above normal. With the cold blast coming through early in the week, these will drop somewhat, but since it will start to warm up again after…
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A new study that was recently published in the journal Nature shows that scientists studying sea-level rise have been using methods that underestimate how high the water already is. One result is that hundreds of millions more people worldwide are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated, according…
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The Climate Prediction Center issued their monthly update on the ENSO today. The report indicates that while La Nina is still present, it is just barely holding on and is expected to end in the next month, leading to the return of neutral conditions. CPC is predicting a fairly quick swing to El Nino conditions…
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Since we are likely to be switching from the weak La Nina we are currently in to neutral and then El Nino by later this summer, Climate.gov thought it was a good idea to remind us all that La Nina and El Nino have different impacts on spring tornadoes and hailstorms as well as on…