Climate summaries
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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.…
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NOAA released their climate summary for July 2015 today. You can find it at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201507. The summary shows that July was just above the long-term average in temperature for the contiguous US and that it was somewhat wetter than normal, including a surprisingly wet California, which was impacted by the remains of Hurricane Dolores. Usually California…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center compiles a regional text-based climate summary for the Southeast based on reports from individual states as well as additional information. You can find the latest at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJuly2015.pdf.
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The July 2015 climate summary for Florida is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-july-2015.
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July 2015 was warm across the state of Georgia, with departures of slightly over 1 degree F across the region. The warmest areas were generally also the driest. Precipitation varied from 3.4 inches below normal near Macon to 5.1 inches above normal near Brunswick. Temperatures across the state were above normal almost everywhere. In…
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