Climate summaries
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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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We are halfway through December, and this month has been quite variable in both temperature and precipitation across the Southeast. Florida has been above normal in temperature, especially south Florida, while other areas of the Southeast have been below normal. Precipitation also varied quite a bit, with a streak of wet weather across southern Georgia…
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In addition to the update on La Niña, NOAA also released their monthly and seasonal summary this week. It shows that for the contiguous lower 48 states, this was the warmest fall on record, coming in 6.3 degrees above the 20th century average. November was the second warmest on record, coming after 1999. NOAA also…
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The WunderBlog posted a story yesterday describing the large number of record fall temperatures for cities across the US this year. A number of them are in the Southeast, particularly in the areas most affected by drought. You can read it here.
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The climate summary for Florida for November 2016 is now available online. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=503.
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Above-normal temperatures were once again the story in most of Georgia in November. The only areas that were cooler than average were the wettest areas from previous months, since the sun’s energy was directed into evaporating soil moisture rather than raising temperatures. In contrast to previous months, the driest part of the state was the…
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