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With less than a week to go until Inauguration Day on January 20, you might be interested in this look back at the weather on some previous Inauguration Days by Tom Moore of iWeatherNet.com. You can read it at https://www.iweathernet.com/dallas-fort-worth/inauguration-day-weather-highlights-from-the-past. This year’s event is likely to be one of the warmest on record if the current…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows no rain in the Florida peninsula, which could lead to the expansion abnormally dry conditions there, but near normal amounts of rainfall in the rest of the Southeast this week. These rains could further reduce the drought levels in some areas or the Drought Monitor folks could keep levels…
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NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has a couple of graphics showing changes in the frost-free regions of the US for March and April. The graphics clearly show the expansion of frost-free areas in the Midwest and Great Lakes during those months, although they have more limited value for us in the Southeast. It would have been…
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In previous blog posts I have noted the unprecedented decay of sea ice over the last few years and showed a graph which indicated a rapid decline of global (combined Arctic and Antarctic) sea ice this year. Here’s an update of the chart (most recent year in red). Note that the trend towards unbelievably low…
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NOAA released their January 2017 update for ENSO (the oscillation that is the combination of El Niño and La Niña) this week. It shows that weak La Niña conditions still remain in the eastern Pacific, but that they are expected to go back to neutral conditions within two months. Even though it will be technically…
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If you were hoping for snow in last weekend’s winter storm moving through parts of the Southeast (or even if you weren’t but like weather discussions) you will be very interested in this discussion of the complex forecast surrounding the storm by Matt Daniel, UGA alum and television meteorologist at WMAZ in Macon GA. He…
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Scientific American has an interesting short article today about links between the record warm Arctic temperatures and the jet streams which affect our weather patterns here in the US. You might enjoy reading it. The link is at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arctic-is-getting-crazy/.