Climate summaries
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The climate summary for April 2015 for Florida is now available at the Florida Climate Center web site here.
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April 2015 was much warmer and wetter than normal across the state. The wet conditions caused delays in planting and contributed to some disease pressure in crops while the warm conditions accelerated the growth of plants like corn that were already in the ground. While statewide statistics will not be available until later this month,…
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The NC climate summary for April 2015 is now available at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=132&h=5666e5c1.
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The preliminary statistics for April are coming in and show that most of the Southeast was much warmer than usual. The HPRCC climate maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center below show that most of the area had temperatures of 2-4 degrees above average in the Carolinas , 4-6 degrees above average in Georgia…
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There have been some spectacular videos and photos of the latest volcanic eruption to occur: Calbuco in southern Chile. Climatologists have been watching the eruption closely to see what climate impacts, if any, will occur due to the eruption. Big volcanic eruptions are known to shoot sulfuric acid high into the atmosphere where it forms…
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We’re halfway through April and I thought it might be interesting to look at how the climate is doing so far this month. The maps below from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show the month to date departures from normal for temperature and precipitation. The maps clearly show that so far April is running…
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One of the consequences of the continuing drought in California has been the unprecedented string of extremely high temperatures that have occurred in the last few years. Normally a portion of the sun’s energy that hits the earth goes to evaporating water from the surface, either from soils or water bodies or indirectly through evapotranspiration…