ELKMONT ALABAMA: FALL FORECAST

Thursday, September 1, 2016

FALL FORECAST

ACCUWEATHER:
Opposite of areas farther north, the Southeast will experience largely beneficial wet weather early.

Northern and southern edges of the region, in South Florida and the Tennessee Valley, may be the dry pockets this fall, while rain spreads over the rest of the area.

An active weather pattern in October may allow severe storms to form across Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina at times. "Fronts and any tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, that will all contribute to help out and break this short-term drought that they're in right now."

Experts predict the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season will yield a normal or slightly above-normal number of storms. However, regardless of season totals, one or two more impacts may be in store for the U.S.

FARMERS ALMANAC:

September 2016

1st-3rd. Continued hot.
4th-7th. Potent thunderstorms Mid-Atlantic region; violent thunderstorms through Mississippi Valley.
8th-11th. Hot, humid with hit-or-miss showers, especially from Carolinas, Georgia, into Florida.
12th-15th. Thunderstorms, then turning fair. A tropical cyclone develops east of Florida, then heads out to sea.
16th-19th. Pleasant initially, then big thunderstorms develop.
20th-23rd. Gales along Gulf, Atlantic Coast north to Mid-Atlantic Coast; scattered thunderstorms and locally heavy rain.
24th-27th. Fair initially Mid-Atlantic, then more thunderstorms. Showery, breezy for Mississippi Valley.
28th-30th. Sultry with a continued risk of showers, thunderstorms. Fair Virginia, West Virginia.

October 2016

1st-3rd. Thunderstorms spread east to Mississippi Valley.
4th-7th. Fair skies.
8th-11th. Unsettled with rain. Gusty winds Mississippi Valley.
12th-15th. Pleasant weather. Fair, then increasingly cloudy skies.
16th-19th. Stormy weather, especially over Gulf Coastal States.
20th-23rd. Fair and windy Virginia, West Virginia. Very unsettled Mississippi Valley. Increasingly cloudy elsewhere.
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