Climate summaries
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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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With almost half the year gone, it is a good time to look ahead to what is likely to happen the rest of this year and in 2017 based on the current climate pattern. While this outlook is specific to Georgia, most of the information is generally applicable to the entire Southeast. This year began…
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Even though some areas set record high temperatures for the day on Saturday, it is still pretty early for the hottest day of the year. The Weather Channel has a nice discussion of NOAA’s map of when the hottest day of the year occurs at https://weather.com/science/news/warmest-day-year-map-noaa-ncdc-20140626. EarthSky also discusses why the solstice is not the hottest…
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NOAA’s latest global climate summary for May 2016 shows that the May temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.57°F above the 20th century average of 58.6°F. This was the highest for May in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.04°F. It is the 13th month in a row…
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