Climate summaries
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Reporters often ask me about how a month or a season ranked compared to other years of record. I like to use the Southeastern Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool to help determine that. You can use the link https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true and set your own start and end point to pick the time period of interest. For most…
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NOAA reported this morning that the record warmth in December helped make 2016 the second warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, with an average temperature of 54.4 F, compared to the record-setting year of 2012, which was 55.3 F. Every state in the Southeast set a new statewide record for December temperature,…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their summary of the 2015 climate in their state. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=171&h=5666e5c1.
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Extremely warm temperatures across Georgia in December 2015 should lead to a new record monthly average temperature for the state as a whole, although final records are still being compiled. Precipitation was also well above normal in many areas of the state, with the exception of the southeast quadrant, where little rainfall was received. Temperatures…
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The latest climate summary for Florida for December 2015 is now available at their website. You can visit it by clicking here.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their climate summary for December 2015 at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=170&h=5666e5c1. They also have an discussion on the outlook for the rest of winter which covers the Southeast, so you may want to read it even if you live outside of North Carolina.
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The latest CoCoRaHS blog has a summary of the crazy December 2015 weather across the US that you might find interesting. I’ll be posting the individual climate summaries for Southeastern states later this week as they come in. Welcome to a new month and a new year! https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-december-to-remember.html