It’s down to the final four in the NFL Playoffs, and after Sunday, we will know the two teams playing in Super Bowl 50. MORECAST has a look at how the weather is shaping up for both the AFC and NFC Championship games on Sunday.
MORECAST meteorologists continue tracking a major winter storm, having significant impacts from the Lower Mississippi Valley, northeastward through the mid-Atlantic, including the major metro areas of Memphis, Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City.
With the formation of Hurricane Alex – the first named storm of 2016 – in the Atlantic, MORECAST takes a look at just how unusual out-of-season tropical activity really is.
Since October, much of the Pacific Northwest and Mid-South has seen significant improvement in the drought that had been plaguing those areas earlier in the year. In some cases, locations that were in the “Extreme” or even “Exceptional” drought category have improved all the way out of official drought status entirely (see figure one comparing drought conditions in early October with the current analysis courtesy of the U.S. Drought Monitor). Similar relief may be on the way thanks to a favorable El Niño pattern for areas of California and western Nevada that have been parched for two years.
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