Climate summaries
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NOAA released their monthly climate summary for June 2015 earlier this week. You can read the summary report at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201506. The data show that June 2015 was the warmest on record (since official records began in 1880) for the globe as a whole, although some areas were cooler than average. The first six months of 2015…
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I’ve been out of the country for most of the last two weeks, so was eager to see how the climate for July has fallen out so far. Based on the maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center, it looks like most of the Southeast has been 1-2 degrees warmer than normal. Rainfall has…
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The NOAA climate summary for June 2015 was released this morning. It shows that for the nation as a whole, this past June was the second warmest on record (after June 1933). You can read the summary information now at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201506. The full report will be released on July 13.
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June 2015 ended up quite a bit warmer than normal across the state, but precipitation was variable. Some areas received well above normal rainfall, but others areas missed the beneficial rains and experienced increasing drought. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 79.6 degrees F (2.3 degrees above normal), in Athens 80.4 degrees (2.9 degrees…
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The Florida Climate Center has released their monthly summary for June 2015. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-june-2015.
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You can read the latest summary of climate information for June for North Carolina at http://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=140&h=5666e5c1.
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Since it is near the end of the month, let’s take a look at how the month is likely to shake out. The temperature departure map shown below from the High Plains Regional Climate Center shows that almost all of the Southeast is above normal in temperature. For Georgia I estimate that the temperature should end up…
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