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The latest 7-day QPF map shows a lot of rain across the region this coming week. The largest slug of moisture will come in the next three days with a big storm moving through the region. We can expect some severe weather, especially in southern AL and GA and in Florida, along with several inches…
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If you like to play with maps and climate outlooks, you might be interested in this NOAA site from their Physical Sciences lab. It allows you to look at the individual climate anomalies for each EL Nino or La Nina in the period 1991-2020 to see how they varied. It shows both global patterns and…
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Since today is the 12th day of Christmas, I thought I would fit in one more Christmas story before we move into the post-holiday period. This story from Yahoo is not really about weather or climate, but since Christmas trees are produced in the Southeast as an agricultural product, I thought you might be interested.…
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USA Today published a story on New Year’s Day providing a preliminary look at the climate statistics of the world in 2023. While it will be a few more days before the final numbers are in, the results showing that 2023 was the warmest year since official records began in 1880. This was a combination…
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Over the last few weeks I have seen a lot of discussion about the change in the weather pattern that has occurred due to the weakening of the polar vortex over the North Pole. There is a lot of misinformation about what the polar vortex is and how it affects weather and climate in the…
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Earlier this week I posted a story that contained several lists of the top ten weather and/or climate events in 2023. Here is an additional list from the Weather Channel listing some of the strangest things that occurred in weather in 2023, including the role that Hurricane Dora played in the Maui wildfires and the…
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Over Christmas I ran across this very interesting story on Maureen Sweeney, a woman whose forecast helped make D-Day a success. She and her husband took barometer readings in Ireland that were critical for getting the D-Day forecast correct, helping the Allies choose the right day to make the critical landing in Normandy, France. By…