Climate summaries
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An initial look at the rainfall patterns in February 2023 shows that most of the region was drier than normal, with just a few areas wetter than normal. The driest areas are found in the southern Florida Peninsula, where a significant part of the region received less than 25% of its normal rainfall except for…
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With just a couple of days to go, we can use the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool to predict the ranking of temperatures for stations across the region. The tool, which you can find at https://sercc.com/climate-perspectives/, allows you to use predicted temperatures for up for five days ahead to predict the expected monthly average…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the globe for January 2023 was released by NOAA last week. It shows that January 2023 was the 7th warmest since global records began in 1880. They said that 2023 is virtually certain (99% chance) to be in the top 10 warmest years on record. In addition, the sea…
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According to NBC News and reposted by Yahoo News, “natural disasters forced an estimated 3.4 million people in the U.S. to leave their homes in 2022, according to Census Bureau data collected earlier this year, underscoring how climate-related weather events are already changing American communities.” Storms like Hurricane Ian displaced the most people, with floods,…
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Earlier this week NOAA released their monthly climate summary for the United States for January 2023. It shows that due to nine atmospheric river events (!) in late December and in January, parts of the California and other western states reported record rainfall. Meanwhile, most of the eastern US had much warmer than normal temperatures,…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office posted their summary for January 2023 today. It discusses the wet conditions that brought drought relief and the lack of snow for many parts of the state. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2023/02/a-warm-wet-january-keeps-many-snowless-this-winter/.
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January 2023 ends in a few hours, and here’s an early look at how the month shook out. The entire region ended up warmer than normal, with the biggest departures in northern areas of the region. Most of the region was also wetter than normal, although most of Florida and some of Virginia as well…
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