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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Since we are halfway through the month, I thought we should take a look at the monthly statistics so far. For most of the region, the temperatures have been above normal. With the cold blast coming through early in the week, these will drop somewhat, but since it will start to warm up again after…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office published their latest monthly summary for February 2026 online. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2026/03/snow-melted-but-severe-drought-continued-in-february/.
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While the official records for winter 2025-2026 are not yet in, unofficially this is one of the warmest winters for the United States on record. For those in the eastern third of the country, it probably did not feel like it considering the repeated advances of cold air into the region, bringing in snowy and…
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With just a couple of days left in the official winter season, we can see that the region as a whole was much drier than normal for the last 90 days, as we would expect in a La Nina winter, even though it was a fairly weak event. The temperature across the region is expected…
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I have seen several snowfall maps of the snow that fell during the storm this past weekend put together by various television meteorologists and others. Here is one I like that was created using the NOHRSC National Gridded Snowfall Analysis by Jordan McLeod of the University of South Alabama that really captures the complexity of…
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The annual summary of the climate of the United States was published earlier this week by NOAA. It shows that 2025 was the fourth warmest year since US records began in 1890. Almost none of the lower 48 states was cooler than normal. You can read the summary at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202513. In addition to temperature and…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released their annual summary of global climate conditions for 2025. The observations showed that 2025 was the third warmest year on record, right behind last year (the warmest on record) and 2023, the second warmest on record. Temperatures this year were slightly cooler than in the previous two years because of…
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