Climate summaries
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The latest monthly summary for January 2024 was released by NOAA on February 8. It shows that the country as a whole was the 10th wettest on record, with extraordinary rain and flooding in parts of the South, especially Texas and Louisiana. Because of the rain, drought conditions improved across a lot of the US…
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If you live in or near Florida or are just interested in what is happening in that part of the Southeast, you may want to listen to or read this story from WUSF featuring David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist. In this piece, he describes the record-setting temperatures in Florida in 2023 and the outlook…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has posted their latest monthly climate summary on their climate blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2024/02/drought-disappears-as-january-stays-wet-in-the-west/.
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The preliminary climate summary for January 2024 shows that the climate pattern in January was split between wetter and cooler conditions in the western part of the region and warmer and drier conditions in the eastern areas. This reflects the prevailing storm track across Alabama towards the northeast. The rainfall in western sections helped reduce…
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We have about a week to go in the month, so let’s take a quick look at what has happened so far. Nearly all of the region was colder than normal, with the biggest departures in Alabama and Tennessee. Southern Florida was the main part of the region that experienced well-above-normal temperatures so far in…
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UPDATE: Summary now available at https://www.drought.gov/webinars/southeast-climate-monthly-webinar-january-23-2024. Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! This webinar series provides the region with information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions…
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NOAA and other organizations have now completed their analysis of the global climate for 2023. Every one of them shows that 2023 was the warmest year in record (since records began in 1880) by quite a bit. This is due to the strong El Nino, the rapidly warming Arctic, and the record-setting warm ocean temperatures…