Did January 2021 feel cold to you? It did to me. I must be getting old! In spite of my perceptions, though, it was actually warmer than normal in most of the region, especially in the nighttime temperatures. Rainfall across the region varied, with some areas receiving rain from storms…
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One of my favorite people to follow on Twitter is Brian Brettschneider, @Climatologist49, who provides an amazing array of climate maps (and quite a few pictures of moose) from his home in Alaska (hence the 49). Today’s maps show the changes in temperature over the past 60 years by county…
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A quick look at the temperature and precipitation patterns across the Southeast shows that so far this January, the typical pattern of warm and dry conditions across southern parts of the region have not occurred. In fact, the coolest and wettest conditions have occurred where we would normally expect to…
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Every January we get a series of notices from different climate agencies about how the recently-ended year’s climate compares to previous years. Since each agency calculates the global average temperature in a slightly different way, it’s really no surprise that they don’t always agree on the exact temperature value and…
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The video of the latest Southeast Monthly Climate webinar, held on Tuesday, January 12, is now available on YouTube. In addition to a review of recent climate, it also contains a special section on fires in the Southeast. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdclPtXhJgM.
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The North Carolina Climate Office has published their annual summary of the weather and climate of 2020 in their state. It is available for you to read at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=331&h=5666e5c1.
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The latest annual climate summary for 2020 is now available from NOAA. It shows that this was the 5th warmest year on record for the contiguous 48 states, 2.4 degrees above the long-term average. The top 5 warmest years all occurred in 2012 or later. The precipitation was 0.34 inches…
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