Climate summaries
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NOAA released their latest monthly global climate summary today, covering January 2016. The analysis shows that January 2016 was the warmest on record by far, going back to 1880, beating the old record from 2007 by almost 0.3 degrees. It is also the 9th month in a row to set a record for the globe. …
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It’s halfway through February, and the maps so far show that for most of the Southeast, temperatures are cooler than normal by a few degrees and precipitation is wetter than normal, at least in the band where El Niño effects are most often seen. The temperature departure for the winter as a whole is still…
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William Schmitz of the Southeast Regional Climate Center put together a scorecard of how the rainfall conditions this winter (December to February to date) compare to previous strong El Niño events. You can see the scorecard at https://www.sercc.com/ElNinoRainScorecard.pdf. The scorecard shows that the 1997-98 event set records across the region for the wettest DJF on record.…
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NOAA released their summary of climate conditions for January 2016 this morning. You can read the summary at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201601, with a link to the full report coming out later this week. They noted that this is the lowest amount of drought in the contiguous US since 2010.
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Weather stations across Georgia recorded temperatures that were mainly one to two degrees below normal in January. Most stations also reported drier than normal conditions for the month, although Atlanta and Alma were exceptions to this pattern. Temperatures across the state were below normal in January. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 42.4 degrees…
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The USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub published its latest newsletter today. The issue has a list of several upcoming webinars related to agriculture and climate as well as climate summaries for December and for 2015. You can read it by clicking here.
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The latest climate summary for Florida is now available from David Zierden, the State Climatologist. You can see it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-january-2016.
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