FORECAST SUMMARY: Thursday, July 31 :
***** Disease Update - 29 July .....
Downy Mildew has been discovered near the town
of Vincennes, IN. About 20% of a 10-acre field of watermelon
is infected. Recent weather has been favorable. This is a moderately
serious source.
***** Unsettled weather is expected in the eastern U.S. for the foreseeable future ***** In the middle and upper levels of the atmosphere...... there is a persistent trough of low pressure centered over the east-central United States. This means moist southwesterly flows over the eastern U.S., particularly the eastern seaboard. Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will occur each day in various areas. Rainfall will be focused by fronts at the surface (one in the eastern U.S. lifting north today and Friday, another cold front coming out of the upper Midwest affecting the eastern U.S. this weekend) and aided by bundles of energy rotating through the mid and upper-level trough. This same general weather pattern is expected to persist through next week and quite possibly longer.
***** In the Southeast.... Strongly Moderate Risk for the southern half of FL, the northern 1/4 of FL and southern GA, both Thursday and Friday. Moderate Risk for eastern SC. Conditions will be mixed to favorable in this region Saturday through Monday. In the Ohio Valley..... the weather won't be as active here as along the east coast. Drier days will alternate with days with scattered to widespread shower activity. Low Threat from the southern IN source on Thursday. Moderate Risk Friday for western and northern IN and the southern 1/2 of Michigan' s lower peninsula. Mixed conditions in the region Saturday and Sunday, mostly unfavorable weather Monday. In Texas..... some scattered showers and thunderstorms today in the central sections. Mostly dry weather for this state from Friday through Monday. Low Threat from the deep South TX source region Thursday and Friday, with Low Risk to cucurbit growing areas. Unfavorable conditions otherwise through Monday.
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This service is provided by the North Carolina State University departments of Plant Pathology and Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences.