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Kirk Mellish's Weather Commentary

Kirk Mellish's Weather Commentary Archive for May 2009 

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Blog Entries for Thursday, May 21

Summer and hurricane season long-range forecast

The summer of 2009 June-August is likely to be noted for a lack of extreme heat for most of the country, including Georgia. A neutral or weak El Nino in the Pacific Ocean and the solar minima are the two biggest factors in making the forecast. Other factors include the ...

Blog Entries for Saturday, May 16

Southeast Tornadoes

As expected, so far anyway, a less active tornado season than last year, and fairly close to normal nationwide in terms of total numbers.  No doubt the death of La Nina helped lessen the extremes of the season in most areas thus far, but we have the rest of May ...

Blog Entries for Monday, May 11

Weather trends

Temps in Georgia the next 2-weeks average normal to below-normal with rainfall near-average to above-average. Week 3 looks to average out near-normal in both temps and rainfall. The 30-day outlook looks to average out with temps near-normal and rainfall near-normal to above-normal. The 90-day trends put the real hot dry ...

Blog Entries for Monday, May 4

90-Day outlook

The condition of ENSO, the Atlantic Ocean mode, recent volcanic eruptions and the solar sunspot cycle will all factor into our summer weather outlook. Here is the broad view long-range weather outlook. 

Blog Entries for Friday, May 1

Vortex research

New tornado research to begin this month.

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