Climate summaries
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Rain fell in streaks across the state of Georgia in February, soaking some areas while others were left lacking. Temperatures were generally near normal to slightly above average conditions. Several severe weather outbreaks brought tornadoes and high winds to the state this month. Temperatures varied across the state but most were slightly above normal. In Atlanta,…
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You can read the latest climate summary for North Carolina for the month of February 2016 on their blog site. The address is https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=180&h=5666e5c1.
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The latest edition of the CoCoRaHS blog has a description of the wacky weather that has been observed across the US so far this winter. You might enjoy reading the recap of everything that has happened so far at https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2016/02/its-been-wild-wacky-winter.html.
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NOAA released their latest monthly global climate summary today, covering January 2016. The analysis shows that January 2016 was the warmest on record by far, going back to 1880, beating the old record from 2007 by almost 0.3 degrees. It is also the 9th month in a row to set a record for the globe. …
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It’s halfway through February, and the maps so far show that for most of the Southeast, temperatures are cooler than normal by a few degrees and precipitation is wetter than normal, at least in the band where El Niño effects are most often seen. The temperature departure for the winter as a whole is still…
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William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center put together a scorecard of how the rainfall conditions this winter (December to February to date) compare to previous strong El Niño events. You can see the scorecard at https://www.sercc.com/ElNinoRainScorecard.pdf. The scorecard shows that the 1997-98 event set records across the region for the wettest DJF on record.…
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NOAA released their summary of climate conditions for January 2016 this morning. You can read the summary at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201601, with a link to the full report coming out later this week. They noted that this is the lowest amount of drought in the contiguous US since 2010.
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