Early weather projections indicate a summer pattern that shows warmer and wetter conditions than normal.
Pam Knox, University of Georgia (UGA) Extension agricultural climatologist, noted in the UGA Extension Climate Blog that, “the early summer pattern does show a continuation of warmer than normal temperatures due to the influence of rising temperatures caused by global warming, but rainfall is showing a slight tendency towards wetter than normal conditions.”
Knox attributed this to the prediction of a tropical season that is expected to be more active than average and the chance that some of that activity may affect Southeast specialty crop producers.
The early summer weather pattern is different from the conditions expected over the next month.
“May will continue to show a little of the signal from the La Nina that recently went away, including warmer and drier conditions being slightly more likely in southern parts of the region,” Knox wrote.