Climate summaries
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The latest summary for Florida’s climate for August 2016 is now available. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-august-2016.
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Above-normal temperatures continued in Georgia for a third month, leading to summer average temperatures at or near record levels at stations across the state. While very few daily temperature records were set in August, record runs of days at or above 90 F for maximum temperatures and 70 F for minimum temperatures occurred at a…
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Jon Erdman of WunderBlog posted an article this week based on some work done by folks at the Southeast Regional Climate Center showing that summer was the hottest on record for a number of cities across the US, including many in the Southeast. Many more were the second hottest on record. You can read about…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has issued their climate summary for August today at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=207&h=5666e5c1.
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One of the amazing things about this summer (to me) has been the unrelenting nature of the heat this year. We’ve had very few days over 100 F and most days were nowhere near a record temperature for the date, but the number of runs of days above thresholds like 90 F for max temperatures…
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August is almost over, and a look at the temperature departures for the Southeast help explain why drought has been expanding across central and southern Georgia. Most of northern Georgia has been fairly close to normal in precipitation, but the southern half of Georgia and particularly along the coast has been quite dry. Combined with the…
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Brad Haire of the Southeast Farm Press‘ blog interviewed me this week on the status of La Niña and what we might expect to see this fall and winter if La Niña develops as expected. Currently NOAA gives it a 60 percent chance of happening in the next few months. You can read the article here.