Climate summaries
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NOAA and other organizations have now completed their analysis of the global climate for 2023. Every one of them shows that 2023 was the warmest year in record (since records began in 1880) by quite a bit. This is due to the strong El Nino, the rapidly warming Arctic, and the record-setting warm ocean temperatures…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released their climate summary for 2023. It shows that the United States had a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, including nine atmospheric river events in California, the wildfire in Maui, Hurricane Idalia, and droughts across the Mississippi Valley and other locations. You can read the NOAA News article at…
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If you are interested in North Carolina, you may want to sign up for their annual webinar discussing the climate of 2023. You can register for the webinar at https://ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrf-6grD0sGNfQsjud6ICxS-KJAdr5nfWk#/registration. You can also read their December climate summary at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2024/01/winter-gets-a-warm-wet-start-in-december/. Eventually a summary of the Year in Review will also appear on their climate blog.
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USA Today published a story on New Year’s Day providing a preliminary look at the climate statistics of the world in 2023. While it will be a few more days before the final numbers are in, the results showing that 2023 was the warmest year since official records began in 1880. This was a combination…
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Earlier this week I posted a story that contained several lists of the top ten weather and/or climate events in 2023. Here is an additional list from the Weather Channel listing some of the strangest things that occurred in weather in 2023, including the role that Hurricane Dora played in the Maui wildfires and the…
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While the official statistics are not yet in, a preliminary look at the climate of 2023 shows that many stations in the Southeast had their warmest year on record. The map below from the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool shows the West Coast of Florida and the northern Gulf Coast had the most record-setting…
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As expected, NOAA announced that the earth as a whole had its warmest November in recorded history based on data since 1880. This is especially due to the unusually warm Atlantic, the Arctic, and the wide area of warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the Eastern Pacific due to the current strong El Nino. When…
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