Climate summaries
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Georgia was well above normal in temperature again in July, following a warm June. This is the second or third warmest June-July period on record for much of the state. Temperatures ranged from almost 2 to 3.5 degrees above the 1981-2010 average. Rainfall was less than 50% of normal in nearly half the state, causing…
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You can read the climate summary for July from the Florida State Climatologist at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-july-2016.
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You can read the latest summary from the Office of the State Climatologist in North Carolina at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=201&h=5666e5c1.
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Virtually all of the Southeast was warmer and drier than normal in July 2016, according to maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. The precipitation deficit is even more striking when you look at the percentage of normal and see that large chunks of the region got less than 50% of their normal rainfall.…
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NOAA released their latest global climate summary for June 2016 today. It shows that the earth was record-setting warm again, for the 14th month in a row. The sea surface temperatures were also record warm. The January-June totals also show a new record for 2016, far surpassing last year’s record warmth. This makes it virtually…
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We’re halfway through July and a look at the climate statistics so far shows the troubling situation for crops across most of the region. Temperatures across the Southeast have been well above normal so far this month, leading to excessive heat stress on livestock and significant evapotranspiration from crops. The precipitation across the Southeast has…
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I got a great question from Laura Griffeth, county extension agent for Webster County, Georgia, about a graph I showed in a post a while back on changes in summer temperature over time. Her question was “What happened in Georgia in the late 1960s for Georgia’s average temperature to be so low compared to other…