***** Forecasts will be curtailed this week. Your Forecaster is preparing for an upcoming conference and writing reports for several agencies. Weather for the next week is given below. Forecasts will return on Tuesday, October 22.... likely in an abbreviated format. *****
***** Disease Update - 15 October ***** Our thanks to Plinio Castilla in FL..... who informs us of an outbreak of downy mildew on summer squash in Dade County, FL near the town of Homestead. About 30% of a 30-acre field is infected. Disease activity was initially light but has increased in the past several days.
FORECAST SUMMARY - Tuesday, October 15
***** The Weather.... (Eastern United States).... A low pressure area developing in the eastern Gulf will move north and northeast up the U.S. East Coast today and Wednesday. This is occurring ahead of a cold front approaching from the Midwest. Clouds and rain will spread from the Southeast into the mid-Atlantic today. Rainy weather will continue to move north tonight and Wednesday, affecting the northern tier. The Southeast and lower mid-Atlantic will dry out on Wednesday but cloudiness will remain in many locations. The bulk of the rainfall will be from the mountains eastward. By Thursday.... cool high pressure will move into the eastern U.S. and remain in control through Saturday. Clear to partly cloudy skies are expected with little to no rainfall. The next cold front will move into the eastern U.S. during the weekend. Chance of showers west of the mountains Friday night into Saturday. Chance of showers from the mountains eastward Saturday night into Sunday. The front will exit the coast on Monday.
***** Favorable weather for disease development Tuesday and Wednesday in the eastern United States. Unfavorable weather is expected Thursday and Friday (plus Saturday eastern Seaboard). Mixed conditions will be associated with the passage of the cold front during the weekend.
TK
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Immokalee, FL
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This service is provided by the North Carolina State University departments of Plant Pathology and Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences.