Pam Knox
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The National Weather Service has recently updated their website for the national precipitation maps, which is based on radar-estimated rainfall. You can find it at https://water.noaa.gov/. It allows the display of stream gauge observations as well as forecasts and also allows you to display daily, monthly, and yearly precipitation amounts. You can turn on county…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that most of the region should receive less than half an inch this week, with some areas in Virginia, northern GA and NE Alabama and the west coast of Florida receiving up to an inch. Most of the rain will fall midweek, with another dry weekend coming up. The…
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NOAA released their spring outlook for the US about a week ago but due to the software update this is the first chance I have had to post it. The outlook shows that above-normal temperatures are likely to continue through the April-June period. A lot of the Southeast also has a higher than usual chance…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released earlier this week, shows that dry conditions in North Carolina and Puerto Rico decreased from last week. A small area of abnormally dry conditions remains near Tampa in Florida. The dry area in Florida could be reduced or eliminated this week but not much change is expected in North Carolina.
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The university blog sites are shutting down this weekend for a software update, so here is an early look at the rainfall for the next week. It shows that several rain events will move through the region over the next seven days, bringing several inches of rain to most of the region with the exception…
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The latest climate outlook, issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center today, shows that wetter and warmer than normal conditions are expected through most of the Southeast through late summer. After that, a switch to drier than normal conditions is expected to occur as the La Nina becomes stronger. If the La Nina strengthens more quickly…
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According to a recent story from the National Weather Service, the waning El Nino has provided a lot of drought relief to the nation over the course of the winter, including parts of the Southeast. While many parts of the country benefited from the rain, drought expanded in the High Plains, especially Montana, North Dakota,…