Climate summaries
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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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The climate summary for North Carolina for January 2016 is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=176&h=5666e5c1. It also looks ahead to the weather patterns we are likely to see in February.
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Even though the final totals for January 2016 are not yet in, it’s clear that January is likely to rank in the top ten wettest for Florida since records began in 1895. The ranking map below from the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool shows the number of stations in the state that are ranked…
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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,…