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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southern Region for December 2020 – February 2021. Dated March 2021.
Winter temperatures primarily ranged between 4°F below normal to 1°F above normal across the region. Winter precipitation varied spatially across the Southern Region, but was primarily below normal.
Soil moisture has been recognized as a key variable for assessing the onset and magnitude of both drought and flooding hydro-extremes, but accurately measuring it over a large spatial extent and systematically reporting it have proven to be challenging. In response to this need and with support from NIDIS, the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research's Weather Program Office funded a new project to enhance the soil moisture monitoring network in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida and to improve the application of soil moisture data to decision making in the region.
