Climate summaries
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The Florida Climate Center has released their monthly climate summary for December 2016. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=504.
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December 2016 was once again much hotter than normal across the state, with some areas over six degrees above normal. Rainfall was highly variable this month, with the northern half of the state quite dry while much of the southern half was inundated with heavy rain, particularly on December 4 to 6. In Atlanta, the…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their latest climate summary, for December 2016. It also contains an update on La Nina. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=224&h=5666e5c1.
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center is featured in this story from The Weather Channel on 2016 climate statistics for cities around the US. A number of Southeast cities are included in the list for warmest and driest cities, and Naples FL is listed on the list of coolest (lowest temperature anomaly, not raw temperature) cities.…
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The preliminary maps for December and for the year of 2016 are now available from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. They show that December continued the string of above-normal temperatures that started in February 2016, especially in Florida. Most of Florida and northern GA and AL were dry, which continued to keep drought in…
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NOAA released their monthly summary for November this week. It shows that overall, November was the 5th warmest on record for the globe. The fall period September to November 2016 was the second warmest on record after last year’s El Niño-enhanced temperatures. With one month to go, the year to date is still on pace…
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NOAA has released its latest quarterly report for the climate of the Southeast, covering September through November. It was produced by the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can access the two page fact sheet summary at https://www.cisa.sc.edu/PDFs/2016%20Fall%20SER%20Quarterly%20Overview.pdf.
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