Climate summaries
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This time of year we are subjected to all sorts of lists of the best, worst, and most notable of the past year. Summaries of the past year’s events are also posted frequently. Weather and climate are no exception. Here is a collection of “highlights of 2022” focused on US or world weather and climate…
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The short-term outlook for weather conditions is for more rain to move through a lot of the Southeast, although southern Florida will not see much. The rain could come in a couple of waves, with the heaviest rain occurring in mid-week. After that, cooler and drier weather will move into the region as the pattern…
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The latest monthly climate summary from NOAA shows that the average temperature for the US was 0.7 F below average and the precipitation was 0.17 inches above average. This puts the country in the middle third of years for both variables. The Southeast was generally warmer and wetter than the rest of the country. Parts…
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The annual overview of the worst disasters in the US was formerly collected by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. While some people question its relevance, it does provide a decent overview of how much weather and climate impacted our country this past year. But with the downsizing of NOAA this past year, the billion-dollar-disaster…
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A quick peek at the end of the year statistics for 2025 shows that most of the Southeast was warmer than usual, although there were a few pockets of cooler than normal temperatures. Precipitation across the region was driest in Florida and southern Georgia and Alabama and also drier than normal in a lot of…
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The global climate maps for November 2025 are now available from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/ghcn-gridded-products/maps/201711. They show most of the planet was warmer than normal with a number of areas the warmest everywhere. The precipitation map shows that most of the eastern United States was drier than normal except the area right around the Great Lakes. The Southeast…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released their latest monthly and seasonal summary for the United States for November and fall 2025. Across the United States, it was the 4th warmest November on record. However, here in the Southeast temperatures were much milder and were just above normal. A bigger story was the dry conditions across most…
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Even though it is not quite the end of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the tropics are very quiet right now and no additional storms are expected. Tropical expert Brian McNoldy recently wrote a detailed description of this year’s hurricane season that you might find interesting. You can read it at https://bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2025/11/summary-of-unusual-2025-hurricane-season.html. In the summary,…
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Since it is near the end of October, let’s take a look at the monthly climate conditions. The summary maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that temperature varied across the region, with the warmest areas in the west and cooler than normal conditions in the east. Precipitation varied across the region, with…
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So far this October 2025, very little rain has fallen in most of the Southeast. The only real exception is some tropical rain along the Florida East Coast and South Carolina. The rest of the region has been left mostly high and dry with the area of 50% or less than normal rainfall covering a…
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