FORECAST DISCUSSION: Monday, June17, 1996
*** Weekend Report *** The risk of disease development over the weekend was low to moderate. There were no high risk situations and little or no chance of long-range transport and deposition. However, areas near some source sites were threatened by short-range development associated with afternoon and evening t'storm activity. On Saturday, this moderate risk included farms to the north and east of the east coast sources, and also those in the neighboring counties of the western and central Kentucky sources. Sunday's risk was confined mostly to the GA and N FL sources. In general.......if your fields are within several tens of miles from the source areas.....and you experienced some afternoon showers or storms.....then some live spores were probably deposited.
*** Today: *** Very summer-like weather in the eastern U.S. this week. Conditions will be hot and humid with a chance of afternoon or evening showers or thunderstorms in some areas. There is a slow-moving low pressure system in the Great Lakes region which will bring a lot of precipitation to the northern Ohio Valley. The season's first tropical depression, located off the SE coast, will be affecting the weather in GA and the Carolinas by sometime Tuesday. This system could bring a greater threat to the SE growing areas during the week as clouds and an increased chance of showers move toward the coastal areas.
HIGH-RISK SOURCES: North Florida; Hortense, GA
Web page last updated by Thomas Keever on 17 June 1996.