Climate summaries
-
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…
-
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…
Posted in: Climate outlooks -
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…
Posted in: Uncategorized -
The rainfall that the Southeast got since the cutoff for the last Drought Monitor map on the morning of April 28 shows that many areas got at least half an inch and some areas got 2-3 inches in the last few day. However, this time of year normal rainfall is about an inch a week,…
-
Since today is the last day of the month, the summary maps are not quite complete but still show how much warmer and drier than normal most of the Southeast was this month. Note that there were parts of the region that received less than 5 percent of the normal precipitation. No wonder the drought…
Posted in: Climate summaries -
Here is a really interesting article that describes the current drought in North Carolina and the Southeast that you might also find interesting. It describes the current drought and how the tropical season may affect the drought later in the summer, including transportation hubs like regional airports. You can read it at iWeatherNet at https://www.iweathernet.com/wildfires-and-droughts/north-carolina-drought-record-levels.
-
The climate summary for March 2026 was released this week and shows that the contiguous US was the warmest on record. This is based primarily on record-setting warmth in the western United States coupled with significantly above normal temperatures in most of the eastern US as well. By contrast, Alaska had their third-coldest March on…
Posted in: Climate summaries -
The latest monthly global climate summary from NCEI shows that for the world as a whole, March 2026 was tied for the second-warmest since 1880 with 2024, and was surpassed only by March 2025 by only 0.02 degrees F. Nearly all of the globe except for Alaska was warmer than normal, but Alaska was very…
Posted in: Climate summaries -
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…
Posted in: Climate summaries -
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/.
Posted in: Climate summaries