Climate summaries
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The monthly climate summary for August 2015 for North Carolina is now available. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=152&h=5666e5c1.
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Today marks the first day of climatological fall, so I took a quick look back at the statistics for the last three months. Precipitation was not extreme in most of the region, and mean temperatures were warmer than normal but not near record-setting. But I did notice that if you look specifically at night-time minimum…
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It’s almost the end of the month, so let’s take a look at how the month is trending in temperature and precipitation. These preliminary maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that temperature was above normal for most of the Southeast with the exception of peninsular Florida and northern Alabama. Precipitation varied…
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The last 30 days have been very wet in parts of Florida, although the southern tip is quite dry and is in extreme drought. The map below from https://water.weather.gov/precip shows that some areas of western Florida north and south of Tampa have an excess of 8 inches in just the last month. If the path…
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Yesterday NOAA released their latest global climate summary for July 2015. The summary showed that for global temperatures, this year’s July was the warmest in the 136-year instrumental record. The average January through July global temperature was also the hottest in the 136-year record. On the NOAA webinar yesterday, scientists noted that with the El…
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It’s just past halfway through August. So far for the month, most of the Southeast is running about a degree above normal, although there are areas with below normal temperatures. Precipitation is highest in Florida followed by Georgia and then Alabama. The Carolinas are the driest part of the Southeast and that is where drought has…
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USA Today published an article yesterday looking at the “flash” drought that is currently occurring in the southern US. If you’ve never heard of the term “flash drought”, then you should know this is a term climatologists use for a drought which comes on very quickly and shows almost immediate impacts to crops and livestock.…