The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina covering November 2019 is now available. You can view it at http://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=306&h=5666e5c1.
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Climate summaries posts
The initial climate summary maps for November 2019 are now available from the High Plains Regional Climate Center and show that all of the Southeast except the Florida Peninsula was colder than normal. Rainfall varied quite a bit, with coastal Georgia and the Carolinas seeing wet conditions but most other…
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November 30 marks the official end of the Atlantic hurricane season. This year has been a busy one, with 19 identified storms (only Tropical Depression 3 was not named), much more than the average of 12 per year. No storms are expected to develop by November 30, so that should…
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With a little less than a week to go in November, temperatures across the region have been three to six degrees below normal across a wide swath of the region. Florida is the only state that has experienced temperatures above normal. Precipitation has varied much more, with rainfall along the…
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The latest ENSO update from NOAA shows that there is no El Niño or La Niña occurring in the Eastern Pacific Ocean at present. Temperatures there are fairly close to the 1981-2010 average. Neutral conditions are likely to continue for the next few months, so short-term climate variations will come…
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The latest global climate summary from NOAA was released today for October 2019. It shows that the month was the second warmest since global records began in 1880, after October 2015. The January through October period was also the second warmest on record after 2016. Note that the western US…
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Halfway through November, we can see that so far this month a lot of the region has been drier than normal. Temperatures have varied across the region quite a bit, with northwestern parts much colder than average while southern Florida continues to bask in above normal weather. The temperature pattern…
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