Climate summaries
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If you’ve been following the monthly summaries of climate that NOAA puts out at the end of each month, it will not be a surprise to you that 2015 has been declared the warmest year on record. Monthly temperatures across the globe have been consistently above normal all year, due in part to contributions from…
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It’s halfway through the month, so let’s take a look at the temperature and precipitation so far. The maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that for most areas of the Southeast, the temperatures are fairly close to normal. The areas that are most above normal are the southern peninsula of Florida and…
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Reporters often ask me about how a month or a season ranked compared to other years of record. I like to use the Southeastern Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool to help determine that. You can use the link https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true and set your own start and end point to pick the time period of interest. For most…
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NOAA reported this morning that the record warmth in December helped make 2016 the second warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, with an average temperature of 54.4 F, compared to the record-setting year of 2012, which was 55.3 F. Every state in the Southeast set a new statewide record for December temperature,…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their summary of the 2015 climate in their state. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=171&h=5666e5c1.
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Extremely warm temperatures across Georgia in December 2015 should lead to a new record monthly average temperature for the state as a whole, although final records are still being compiled. Precipitation was also well above normal in many areas of the state, with the exception of the southeast quadrant, where little rainfall was received. Temperatures…
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The latest climate summary for Florida for December 2015 is now available at their website. You can visit it by clicking here.
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