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rents have been prone to direct west to east movements during this period, robbing the East Coast of most of the moisture usually obtained from a southward “buckling” of the jet stream. The few storms resulting from that buckling this fall have been short-lived, and little measurable rainfall has resulted.

The current pattern gives some hope to a stormier period, and some small likelihood of near normal precipitation, at least for a short period. Forecasters are less confident that this latest precipitation signals a persistent change in the dry pattern, but long-range forecasts nonetheless

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