Climate summaries
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The latest monthly climate update is now available from the State Climate Office of North Carolina. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=214&h=5666e5c1.
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All of the Southeast was above normal in temperature in September, but the areas which were already dry were the hottest. According to the Southeast Climate Perspectives tool (https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true), most stations reported temperatures in their top five all-time Septembers, and a number of those were the warmest ever, especially in the most drought-affected areas. Precipitation…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has a new product available: a summary of summer 2016, published as a colorful and concise two-page fact sheet. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/SERCC_quarterly_report_summer_2016.pdf. It describes the general weather pattern for the season as well as impacts on agriculture as well as flood and drought events.
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Yesterday NOAA released their global climate summary for August 2016. It shows that “the August temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.66°F above the 20th century average of 60.1°F. This was the highest for August in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.09°F. August 2016 was the highest…
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As you saw in my drought post earlier today, dry conditions and drought have expanded in many parts of the Southeast except those that have seen tropical activity. The maps for the month to date show the story. A band of heavy rain associate with Hermine and, to a lesser extent, Julia crosses northern and…
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NASA released their global average temperature statistics for August 2016 and found that August was the warmest August in 136 years of global record-keeping. August also tied July 2016 for the warmest all-time month, which is somewhat surprising since usually August is cooler than July as the sun’s energy starts to wane. You can read…
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Now that cooler temperatures have finally returned to the Southeast, it is time to think about fall and the change of colors. There are a number of websites available to help you find times and places to see peak colors. Country Living highlighted a map which shows how peak color moves from north to south…