As many of you have noticed, forecasts have not been updated since late July. The necessary information has been collected for these forecasts. However, due to time required to attend to other duties, I have been unable to complete and post the forecasts. I offer my apologies for this lapse during an important period of the cucurbit growing season. The missing forecasts will be completed and posted within the next 4 to 5 days. Every effort will be made to insure that this does not happen again. We appreciate everyone's interest and contributions to making our Forecast System work !
Thomas Keever
Meteorologist / Forecaster, North American Plant Disease Forecast
Center
FORECAST SUMMARY - Thursday, August 15:
*** Typical summertime weather will exist in the Southeast U.S. through the weekend *** Daily rounds of scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms will affect various areas. Trajectories from central FL and southern GA will move northwest and north Thursday and Friday, east to northeast Saturday / Sunday. Trajectories from eastern NC will likely move to the northeast (and largely offshore) each day. Best chances of survivable transport and deposition will be near the source areas, but some long-range disease development is possible. On Thursday..... HIGH RISK for northeast NC. Strongly Moderate Risk for central FL and southwest GA. Moderate Risk for the FL panhandle, eastern AL, western and northern GA, southeast TN, and southeast VA. Low Risk otherwise. On Friday..... Strongly Moderate Risk for southwest GA. Moderate Risk for cucurbit crops in central FL, FL's Big Bend region, central and northeast GA, northwest SC, northeast NC, and southeast VA. Low Risk otherwise. Saturday and Sunday.... mixed conditions for disease development are expected across the Southeast, with trajectories likely moving as indicated above.
TK
Current Sources:
Previous Sources:
Immokalee, FL
Charleston, SC
This service is provided by the North Carolina State University departments of Plant Pathology and Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences.