Climate summaries
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The latest national climate summary for the US came out today. It shows that for the contiguous US it was the 13th warmest on record, but Alaska had its second warmest summer ever (it was beautiful when I visited in June, but the whole summer there has been much above normal in temperature and plagued…
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The latest monthly climate summary for Florida is now available. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/flmonthly2019_08.pdf.
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Those speedy folks at the State Climate Office of North Carolina have posted their monthly climate summary for August 2019 while the rest of us are mesmerized by Hurricane Dorian. You can read it, along with info on Dorian and its possible impacts on North Carolina, at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=291.
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The NWS Southeast River Forecast Center released their monthly video on the outlook for water resources in the Southeast earlier this week. It has a lot of summarized information on past rainfall amounts as well as a detailed outlook for the next few months. You can view the video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSjVTfvgyw&feature=youtu.be.
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Halfway through August, temperatures in almost all of the region are running above normal in temperature. Only a few isolated spots are cooler than normal. The highest departures are in central Georgia and southeastern Alabama, with values of 3 degrees or more warmer than normal. Precipitation across the region varies quite a bit. The wettest…
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The latest global climate summary for July 2019 was just released today by NOAA. It shows that this past month was the month with the warmest global average temperature since records began in 1880. Just a few small areas were cooler than normal this month. For January through July, the central US was one of…
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The latest issue of the State of the Climate in 2018 was released today by NOAA and the American Meteorological Society. This comprehensive study was authored by 475 scientists from 57 countries and discusses many aspects of last year’s climate. This is the 29th year that global climate summaries have been published by NOAA and…