Climate summaries
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USA Today reported earlier this week that in all 2016 had only 17 tornado deaths during the year. This is the lowest in 30 years and the second lowest since accurate records began in 1950. The lowest year was 1986 with 16 deaths. One of the reasons this year was so low was that there…
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As I sit here in Athens today, we are experiencing another day well above 70 F. Yesterday, we set a new record of 79 F, just one degree off the all-time airport record of 80 F for January. For most of the Southeast, January so far has been well above normal in temperature and the…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has released their annual climate summary for 2016. You can read it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionAnnualClimateReport2016.pdf. Note that this is a text document and the information will be incorporated into the National Centers for Environmental Information web site at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201613.
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Bloomberg News posted a report based on the annual climate summary from NOAA describing the 15 billion dollar weather and climate disasters that hit the US in 2016, costing $46 billion and killing at least 138 people. Many of the disasters this year were due to flooding, including those from Hurricane Matthew, the unnamed Louisiana…
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NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information have just released a set of very useful and descriptive state climate summaries that discuss both past climate and projections of future climate. A separate publication is available for each state, and includes graphics for temperature, precipitation, extreme events and sea level (for coastal states). You can read about…
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NOAA released their 2016 climate summary this morning. It shows that for the lower 48 states, 2016 was the second warmest on record with 54.9 F, following the record warm year of 2012, which had 55.3 F. According to the report, this marks the 20th consecutive year that the annual average temperature for the CONUS…
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The end of the year has come and gone and now we are both looking back to the past and looking ahead to what will happen in the next growing season. I want to take a few minutes to highlight the last year’s climate and to look forward to the next year. NOAA will publish…