Climate summaries
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The latest monthly climate summaries for February 2020 are now available from the Southeastern Regional Climate Center and for NOAA. The NOAA report also includes a summary for the winter of 2019-2020. You can access them at the links below. SERCC: https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportFebruary2020.pdf NOAA: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202002
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Our friends at the North Carolina Climate Office post a monthly climate summary of what has gone on in their state. The latest one, for February 2020, is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=311&h=5666e5c1 . Check it out!
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I’ve started to get questions about whether or not we have seen our last frost for this spring after the warm winter we have just finished. However, it is still well before the average date of last spring frost for most parts of the region except for the Florida Peninsula, so climatologically it seems unlikely…
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The latest seasonal climate maps for winter 2019-2020 (December 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020) show that temperatures were several degrees warmer than normal across the region. As you might expect, there was a lot of variability in precipitation across the region, with northern parts getting much more rain than central Florida as the pattern…
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The National Weather Service’s Southeast River Forecast Center has a new outlook video available on YouTube. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZctPAgXnU&feature=youtu.be .
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The month is halfway over, and for most of the month we have been locked in a pattern of wet conditions in northern sections of the Southeast and dry conditions in Florida and southern Georgia. Unfortunately for both regions, this pattern is expected to continue…
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The global climate summary for January 2020 was released by NOAA this morning. It shows that this past January was the warmest ever for a January since global records began in 1880. This in spite of the fact that we are not in an El Nino, which usually brings us the warmest global temperatures…