Climate summaries
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NOAA has released their climate summary for the US for March 2015. The maps below show that while the west continued its record-setting warm conditions, the eastern US was split between areas that were slightly above normal (including the Southeast) where it was dry and below normal temperatures where it was wet. March was the…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has a useful display tool for showing the rankings of observed temperature values at NWS stations around the Southeast. Today a number of stations in the region set record high temperatures and a few more set record high minimum temperatures. The tool also allows you to look two days ahead…
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March 2015 was warmer and drier than normal for most of Georgia. While the warmth helped encourage rapid growth of planted corn and other crops, cold conditions late in the month may have caused some damage to fruit blossoms. The warm and dry conditions also increased soil moisture shortages across the region. In Atlanta, the…
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The climate summary for March 2015 for Florida is now available. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-march-2015.
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center provided a map of the ranking of monthly precipitation anomalies for selected stations in the Southeast using their Perspectives tool this week. The map is shown below. It shows that at numerous stations around the Southeast, the monthly total precipitation in March 2015 was ranked in the top ten driest,…
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For the first time since official records began in 1950, not a single tornado was reported in the Southeast in the month of March. In fact, there was very little severe weather across the entire region until the last day of the month, when strong winds and hail hit several areas in the region. You…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their climate summary for March earlier today. You can find it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=129&h=5666e5c1.
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