Climate summaries
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NOAA released the latest monthly climate summary for October 2023 earlier this week. It shows that October was the warmest October on record since observations began in 1880. This is the 5th month in a row that set a new record for temperature. January through October was also the warmest such period on record, and…
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The 5th National Climate Assessment was released on Tuesday morning, the culmination of almost five years of work since the 4th Assessment was released in 2018. This assessment, written by several hundred scientists and reviewed several times by numerous government, public, and private groups as well as interested citizens, contains the latest scientific knowledge of…
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The latest monthly climate report for October 2023 was released by NOAA earlier this week. It shows that for the US as a whole, a lot of the country was pretty close to normal, with the exception of the Northeast and Southwest. There was even an area below normal in southeastern Montana. The precipitation percent…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has published their October 2023 climate summary. It was their 10th driest October on record. You can view it at their climate blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2023/11/drought-digs-in-during-a-bone-dry-october/.
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We are closing out the month of October today. If we look at the preliminary climate statistics for the month, we see that the majority of the Southeast was cooler than normal, with the exception of Virginia and Alabama and areas farther inland and higher in elevation. Precipitation was scattered, with most areas receiving less…
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If you ever get asked about what kinds of disasters have hit your county or community, you should check out the new Atlas of Disaster put together by Rebuild by Design and available here as a PDF file. They also have PDFs of individual staetes, such as this one for Georgia at GEORGIA.pdf (rebuildbydesign.org). You…
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NOAA’s latest global climate summary, released late last week, shows that this past September 2023 was the warmest on record for the earth as a whole. Nearly all of the globe was warmer than average, with most of it well above average and a substantial fraction the warmest ever. For the year to date, the…
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