Climate summaries
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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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With just a couple of (mostly dry) days left in October, the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives map shows the huge variation in rainfall across the Southeast. Charleston and Columbia have set new records for October rainfall in the large storm that hit them early in the month. By comparison, a number of stations in…
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NOAA’s latest global climate summary for September 2015 was released this morning. According to the report, September 2015 was the warmest September in 136 years of record, and the January through September period was also the warmest on record for the globe. Of the last nine months, seven were the warmest on record, January was…
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The month of October so far this year has been very dry and warm across most of the country. The exception: the Southeast, where the heavy rains in South Carolina show up as the only green spot in a sea of red. Other areas in the Southeast have been dry as most of the rainfall…