While it will be a week or so before the US-calculated global temperature records are released, the Europeans have already produced their global version of the temperature map for January 2020. It shows the very warm conditions in Europe and the eastern US and the very cold conditions in Alaska…
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The latest monthly climate summary for January 2020 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can view it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJanuary2020.pdf.
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In spite of the recent cold weather, 2o2o has gotten off to a toasty start across the Southeast, with temperatures running several degrees above normal across the region. Since warmer weather is expected to return to the area before the end of the month, it’s likely that January will end…
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The folks from NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information Systems) have provided a nice summary of the 2019 year in review in ten maps related to drought across the US. We had our share in the Southeast, but it was dwarfed by the exceptional drought in the Four Corners region of…
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NOAA and NASA jointly released their global climate summaries for 2019 today at the American Meteorological Society meeting I am attending in Boston this week. Both agencies agreed that 2019 was the second warmest year for the globe since records began in 1880, after 2016, although they used slightly different…
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The latest text summary of climate information for the Southeast is now available at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionAnnualClimateReport2019.pdf.
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The annual climate summary for the US is now available and shows that for the Southeast as a whole as well as the states of Georgia and North Carolina, 2019 was the warmest year on record. Other states in the Southeast were in the top three warmest. Precipitation was in…
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