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The latest global climate summary for March 2018 is now available from NOAA and it shows that this past month was the 5th warmest on record for the earth as a whole since records began in 1880. The year to date global temperature for January through March was the 6th…
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For those of you who are wondering whether or not our La Niña forecast for this winter has verified, here are the maps showing the temperature and precipitation anomaly patterns from October 1 to the present. Looks like a pretty classic La Niña to me, with warmer and drier conditions…
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NASA has released their global climate summary for March 2018. It shows that for the earth as a whole, this past March was the sixth warmest on record, 0.89 degrees C warmer than the 1951-1980 average. This is lower than the two hottest Marches in 2017 and 2016 and comparable…
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The latest issue of NOAA’s Beyond the Data blog by Deke Arndt looks at the statistics of March 2018 in the larger context of how to interpret anomaly maps and trends and discusses what a billion-dollar weather disaster really means. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/all-things-being-equal-edition.
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With almost half the month gone, April 2018 so far is colder than normal in all of the region except for the Florida peninsula, which has been above normal in temperature. Rainfall for most of the region is well below normal except for a band in northern Florida associated with…
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The latest official reports on the 2017 hurricanes has been released. Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in modern times. Since it hit 201 days ago, there are still 100,000 citizens without power and many without safe drinking water. And the next hurricane season starts…
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NOAA’s monthly summary for the US shows that “In the first three months of 2018, there have been three weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the U.S. These events included a severe storm event in the Southeast and two winter storm events in the central and…
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