2 October 2001 Downy Mildew Forecasts

FORECAST SUMMARY : Tuesday, October 2:

*** (25 September) Trajectories are unavailable for the short-term future *** Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) (the branch of NOAA from whom we get our forecast trajectories) is moving to a system in which their users must be registered. Registration may take up to two weeks but will likely be sooner. During this time, trajectories will be unavailable for our Cucurbit Downy Mildew forecasts. We will continue to post a regional weather description. As soon as trajectories can be obtained we will return to a more normal format for the forecasts.

*** High pressure will govern the weather over the eastern U.S. during the next two days *** Conditions are expected to be unfavorable for long-range transport and disease development. A frontal system will begin to swing through the Midwest and Great Lakes on Wednesday. This sytem is expected to affect cucurbit growing areas later this week as it gathers strength. Until then, precipitation associated with this system will be sparse.

TK

Current Sources:

• Knoxville, Tennessee
• Stanton, Kentucky
• Sylvester, Georgia
• Goldsboro, North Carolina (eastern NC)
• Clarksville, Tennessee
• Hartwell, Georgia
• South Deerfield, Massachusetts
• Piggett, Arkansas
• Vincennes, Indiana
• Painter, Virginia

Previous Sources:

Immokalee, FL
El Campo, TX
Charleston, SC

This service is provided by the North Carolina State University departments of Plant Pathology and Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences.