Climate summaries
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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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The latest monthly climate summary for March 2022 is now available from the North Carolina State Climaet Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/04/drought-sprouts-at-the-coast-as-spring-takes-root-in-march/.
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Today is the last day of March, so here is a quick look at the monthly statistics. Keep in mind that it does not include this morning’s precipitation, which ranged from 0.5 inches to 2.0 inches across the drier areas of the Southeast, so the final numbers will be somewhat wetter than what this preliminary…
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