June 2018
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If you follow this blog regularly, you know from previous posts that the meteorological seasons start at the beginning of months and not in mid-month as the astronomical calendar does. So June 1 marks the beginning of summer for meteorologists and climatologists. The choice of using the beginning of a calendar month is both practical…
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The official start of the Atlantic hurricane season is today, June 1. Obviously, we jumped the gun this year with Alberto transitioning from subtropical to tropical storm over land, but it is not that unusual to have a tropical system in the Atlantic before June 1. It is very unusual, though, to have one go…
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The preliminary maps for May 2018 show that temperature was well above normal for most of the region except for the Florida peninsula. Precipitation was above normal for most of the Southeast except for far western regions of the area. A lot of that surplus rain fell in the last two weeks with a plume…
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