Climate summaries
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina published their monthly climate summary for October 2016 (very quickly!). You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=218&h=5666e5c1. Expect the Georgia one later in the week.
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Extremely dry conditions are present over many areas of the Southeast, while others are still digging out from the flooding of Hurricanes Matthew, Hermine, and Julia. The map from the High Plains Regional Climate Center shows the percent of normal rain that has occurred since the beginning of October across the Southeast. The region under…
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NOAA’s latest global climate summary for September 2016 was released today. It shows that September was the second warmest on record for the globe, just slightly cooler than 2015 when El Niño was growing in the Pacific Ocean. This breaks the string of consecutive months that set records for high temperature. The year to date…
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With October half over, it’s time to see how we are doing so far. The temperature departure map shows that almost all of the Southeast is significantly above normal in temperature. The coolest areas are where rain from Hermine fell last month, but even those areas are near or above normal. The drought-stricken parts of…
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NOAA reported last week that this past September was the 9th warmest on record. For southern Florida, it was the warmest on record. For the year to date, it was the second warmest on record, second only to 2012. You can read more in their monthly climate summary at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201609.
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Above-normal temperatures continued in Georgia for a fourth straight month in September. Departures from normal temperature were even higher in September than in August. The hottest areas were in the northwestern half of the state where no cooling relief from tropical storm rain and clouds occurred. Tropical storms Hermine and Julia provided much needed rainfall…
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The Florida climate summary for September 2016 is now available. You can access it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-september-2016.
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