{"id":23630,"date":"2022-02-19T19:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T00:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23630"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T00:57:55","slug":"outlook-for-spring-and-summer-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/02\/outlook-for-spring-and-summer-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook for spring and summer 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center released their latest 3-month climate outlook for the United States. What does this mean for conditions in the Southeast in the coming growing season? The CPC outlook shows a continuation of the current La Ni\u00f1a pattern of warmer and drier conditions across the Southeast that has occurred over most of the winter. La Ni\u00f1a is related to unusually cold water in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and often pushes the jet stream that steers low pressure areas across the region to the north, leaving the Southeast in warm and sunny conditions. Despite the La Ni\u00f1a, however, there have been occasional storms that have brought cold and wet conditions to the region in January and February, causing frost damage to blueberries, vegetables, and other early crops. Frost could occur again this year as well, since most parts of Georgia and the Southeast (except for Florida) have not passed their average date of last frost yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The La Ni\u00f1a is expected to transition back to neutral conditions by mid- to late spring. The outlook shows that the entire Southeast has a better than usual chance of above-normal temperatures for the March through May period as the La Ni\u00f1a weakens. The upward trend in temperature over time is also contributing to the likely warmer conditions. There is a slightly increased chance of dry conditions in southern Georgia and into Florida, especially in March. Severe weather is also more likely in a La Ni\u00f1a spring due to the presence of warm air flowing into the region from the Gulf of Mexico. La Ni\u00f1a and neutral conditions are also associated with more active Atlantic hurricane season from June through November, but the paths of the storms cannot be predicted so far ahead. Areas near and to the east of the paths of this coming year\u2019s storms could see a lot of rain, as occurred last year. However, if the storms track west into Texas or up the East Coast instead, the Southeast could see drought conditions return to the region next summer, especially if the current moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions in the Georgia coastal plain continue into the growing season. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week, NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center released their latest 3-month climate outlook for the United States. What does this mean for conditions in the Southeast in the coming growing season? The CPC outlook shows a continuation of the current La Ni\u00f1a pattern of warmer and drier conditions across the Southeast that has occurred over most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":23623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23633,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23630\/revisions\/23633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}