Climate summaries
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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…
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Georgia was well above normal in temperature in June, ranging from one to almost four degrees above the 1981-2010 average. The hottest areas were in the northern part of the state. Rainfall was less than normal in many areas, causing an expansion of drought over the month and the introduction of extreme drought to two…
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The latest monthly climate summary for Florida for June 2016 is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-june-2016. As I post this, their rainfall map is missing but here is what it will look like once they put it up:
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The latest monthly summary for North Carolina for June 2016 is now available. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=195&h=5666e5c1.
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