Climate summaries
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their climate summary for December 2015 at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=170&h=5666e5c1. They also have an discussion on the outlook for the rest of winter which covers the Southeast, so you may want to read it even if you live outside of North Carolina.
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The latest CoCoRaHS blog has a summary of the crazy December 2015 weather across the US that you might find interesting. I’ll be posting the individual climate summaries for Southeastern states later this week as they come in. Welcome to a new month and a new year! https://cocorahs.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-december-to-remember.html
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The preliminary climate summary for 2015 shows that nearly every station in Florida set a new record for the highest annual temperature, while the flooding in South Carolina in October contributed to the record-setting wet year that Charleston and other nearby SC locations experienced. Many other locations in the Southeast experienced a top ten warmest…
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The Southeast has been experiencing well above normal temperatures this December so far. The ranking map from the Southeast Regional Climate Center shows that nearly all of the stations in the Southeast are ranked in the top ten warmest Decembers for the month to date. With warm weather expected to return after the current…
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NOAA released their latest global temperature summary this morning, and it shows that November, September through November, and year to date were all the warmest on record in 136 years of continuous record. Some of this is due to the strong El Niño which is warming large parts of the Pacific Ocean, but it also…
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NOAA released their November and autumn climate summary today. It shows that this September through November was the warmest on record for the contiguous lower 48 states since 1895 (the previous warmest was 1963), and that the year to date (Jan-Nov) is the 5th warmest on record. The maps below show the rankings by climate…
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Even though we still have a few weeks to go, we are now entering the home stretch for the year in climate. Here are some images which capture what we expect for the 2015 summary, barring any last minute extremes in weather. The maps below show the year to date temperature and precipitation departures for…
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