Climate summaries
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The 2018 annual summary of the climate for the Southeast is now available online. It includes a summary of conditions across the region and a list of the top ten most extreme events. You can read it at https://www.sercc.com/climateinfo_files/monthly/southeast_monthly_report/southeast20181_12.pdf. Note that listings of the ranking of 2018 compared to other years for the Southeast is…
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So far January 2019 has been much warmer than normal across the Southeast but especially in areas north of Florida. Temperatures are as much as 12 degrees above normal so far for the first ten days of the year. Precipitation has been feast or famine, with some areas receiving much higher than normal amounts of…
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The latest monthly summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportDecember2018.pdf.
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Here is an interesting map put together by Brian Brettschneider on how the annual average temperatures in 2018 compare to previous years. It is based on 1289 stations around the US that have temperature records going back at least 50 years. What is shows is that for large parts of the Southeast, 2018’s temperatures were…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their December 2018 climate summary. It also contains a summary of all the rain they had in 2018, including a potential new all-time annual record for the state. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=277&h=5666e5c1.
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December 2018 was two to four degrees warmer than normal across most of Georgia, ending a warm but not record-setting year for the state. Precipitation in most of the state was much wetter than normal, with a significant fraction of the state receiving well in excess of 10 inches of rain. A number of stations…
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Georgia experienced many different weather and climate patterns in 2018. Here are five that stand out for their impacts on the state, listed in more or less chronological order. Snowy January Two different snow storms affected parts of Georgia in January 2018. Early in the month, snow fell in a swath across southern Georgia, bringing…
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