Climate summaries
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In addition to the climate summary I prepare each month for Georgia, the State of Georgia Climate office also puts together their own climate summary. You can read the October summary at https://epd.georgia.gov/sites/epd.georgia.gov/files/October2015_ClimateSummary.pdf.
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Here in Athens GA we are our 8th day in a row of rain. It is raining as I write this. The last time we had a November with this many consecutive days of rain it was 1930. It is supposed to rain tomorrow here too, with 2-4 inches possible. The record for a run…
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NOAA’s latest set of maps summarizing the climate of the US shows that for October, the contiguous 48 states were the fourth warmest since records began in 1895. For the January through October period, the nation was the 6th warmest on record. You can see the breakdown by climate division in the maps below. I’ve…
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Precipitation varied widely across the state of Georgia in October 2015. The impact of the South Carolina flood event was seen in the northeast, but other parts of the state were well below normal in precipitation. Temperatures across the state were near normal. Severe weather was officially reported only on the first day of the…
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The Florida climate summary for October 2015 has been published by the Florida Climate Center and is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-october-2015.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted their October 2015 climate summary online this morning. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=160&h=5666e5c1.
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The preliminary climate maps for October 2015 show a division between the Carolinas and Virginia, which were wetter than normal, and Georgia, Florida and Alabama, which were mostly drier than normal. The wettest area was the coastal area of South Carolina with a small extension into North Carolina due to the flooding event early in…
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