Climate summaries
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With just a couple of days left to go in the month, it looks like May 2022 will end up warmer than normal over nearly all of the region. This is true of both daytime highs and overnight lows. Precipitation was quite variable across the region, with some areas (especially the Southern Appalachians and the…
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NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary late last week. It shows that for the earth as a whole, April 2022 was tied with 2010 for the 5th warmest on record since the record began in 1880. You can read a story with the highlights from the month’s weather and climate at April 2022 tied…
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NOAA’s latest monthly climate summary for the United States was released yesterday. It shows that for the U.S. as a whole, the temperature and precipitation were near normal, with the temperature coming in 0.4 F below normal. Precipitation was just 0.06 inches above the long-term average. You can get more information at Wildfires, severe weather…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina for April 2022 is now available from the NC State Climate Office. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/05/april-had-transient-temperatures-plentiful-pollen/.
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The preliminary climate maps for April 2022 are now available from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. They show that Florida and the coastal plains regions of other states were mostly a bit warmer than normal, while the inland areas in the northwestern part of the region were slightly cooler than normal. Rainfall in many…
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The latest monthly global climate summary was released by NOAA this week. Based on their analysis, this was the 5th warmest year since global records began in 1880. Nearly the entire globe other than the cool La Nina area in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the cold pool east of Greenland were warmer than normal.…
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NOAA released their climate summary for March 2022 late last week. It shows that dry conditions in the western US have made drought conditions even worse than they were before, with little prospect of relief as we approach the end of their rainy season. Here in the Southeast, nearly all of the region had above…
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