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11/10/2019, 7:48 pm EST

Using Wet PDSI Analogs to Predict Winter Temperature and Following Spring Precipitation

The Great Plains soil moisture regime is historic wet right now caused by the wettest 12-month period on record for this region. A look back at the closest analog years reveals the most recent similarity is 2009 and most dramatic 1993. The consensus upper pattern for following winter certainly supports a prevailing cold U.S. pattern.

10/23/2019, 4:10 am EDT

The MANY Adverse Effects on Climate by the Current Historic Positive Phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole

An intensifying positive phase of the Indian Ocean in recent months has lead to the latest wet monsoon on record for India, worsened drought across Australia and recently been associated with unexpected warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean surface and subsurface (and El Nino-look).

10/13/2019, 9:22 am EDT

Warmer and higher than normal sea surface contibutes to Mid-Atlantic flooding

Days of strong onshore wind and and a full moon cause an extensive flooding event into Chesapeake Bay over the weekend. Enhancing this set of coastal flood-inducing circumstances are offshore connditions featuring warmer and higher than normal sea surface conditions.

10/01/2019, 1:43 pm EDT

Engaging New Research From Auburn University to Project Drought Areas

Recent research published in the American Meteorological Society “Journal of Climate” provides an easy and quick methodology to identify where serious drought has developed and is likely to continue (unless a dramatic climate pattern change occurs). The research identifies the influence of deep (10-200 CM) soil moisture anomalies caused by long-term climate and the effectiveness of that deep layer soil moisture deficit on the shallow (0-10 CM) soil moisture anomalies caused by short-term climate and weather phenomena.