Climate summaries
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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…
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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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