Climate summaries
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The monthly summary for the US for October 2016 came out today and shows that October was the third warmest on record. The year to date total was the second highest on record after 2012. The ranking maps for October and May-October precipitation are shown below and really highlight the dry conditions in parts of…
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(Note: This is a long summary but there were many impacts from the drought and Hurricane Matthew this month and I wanted to get them all in.) October 2016 was much hotter than normal across the state. Some areas were more than six degrees above normal, the fifth month in a row of such high…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center’s monthly climate summary report for October 2016 is now available. You can find it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportOctober2016.pdf.
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The Florida climate summary for October 2016 is now available. You can access it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-october-2016c.
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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…