Climate summaries
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You can find the latest summary for Florida for December 2014 at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-december-2014.
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The latest Drought Monitor report came out on Thursday and shows that most drought in the Southeast is gone due to recent rains. Only a small area around Mobile Bay in AL is still showing moderate drought. You can see the latest Drought Monitor at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/RegionalDroughtMonitor.aspx?southeast. This often happens over the winter, when evaporation is low…
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The climate summary for North Carolina for December 2014 has now been posted. You can find it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=112&h=5666e5c1.
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Reports from weather observers are still coming in for the end of 2014, but there are some preliminary results for 2014. The temperatures across the Southeast were generally near to below normal for the year, but fairly mild compared to the region of very cold temperatures in the Great Lakes and the hot conditions in…
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The latest Drought Monitor came out this morning and shows that severe drought has been reduced to less than half a percent of the Southeast. It is now confined to an area in the panhandle of Alabama surrounding Mobile. Abnormal dryness continues in many areas of the Southeast except for the Florida peninsula, but is…
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The State Climate office of North Carolina released a blog post today describing the coastal snowstorm of 1989 in North Carolina. If you are dreaming of a white Christmas, you might enjoy the story, which is at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=111&h=5666e5c1.
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NOAA released their November 2014 summary for the globe today, and it showed that November was the 7th warmest on record for the earth as a whole, although the Southeast and the eastern half of the US was very cold throughout the month. For the year to date, 2014 is the warmest on record for…