Climate summaries
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The State Climate office of North Carolina has released their latest blog posting this week on last winter’s conditions in NC. In the blog posting they also provide an analysis of how the forecasts from folklore and from their own analysis panned out. They close with an update on El Nino and its likely impacts…
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NOAA has released their global climate summary for February 2015 and winter (December-February) 2014-2015 today (the summary has a link to the full report). The summary shows that February 2015 was the second warmest February on record for the globe as a whole, following February 1998, which was a strong El Nino year. The December…
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We’re about halfway through March, and so far for the month the Southeast has been warmer and drier than normal across almost the entire region. The warmth has been especially strong in Florida and southern Georgia. Dry conditions in southern Alabama have contributed to the continuing drought there. Generally the coolest temperatures have corresponded with…
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Farmers are starting to plant corn in southern Georgia and other areas of the Southeast. Rome Ethredge, in the Seminole Crop E News blog (link), pointed out that corn needs about 100 GDD to emerge from seed to seedling, and that areas in his county are reaching that now. In fact, in spite of the…
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Where were you on March 12, 1993? I was up in Wisconsin working as the State Climatologist and watching the weather down south with my meteorologist husband from Birmingham. His home town was getting buried in up to 18 inches of snow as the so-called “Storm of the Century” moved through the Southeast and up the East Coast.…
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The Weather Underground blog published an interesting story today on the unseasonably early decrease in the Arctic sea ice (link). Normally March is when the maximum extent of sea ice occurs, at the end of the long winter season. However, this year satellite observations of sea ice extent show that the sea ice already appears…
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Now that March is upon us and the atmospheric pattern has shifted into something that is bringing more spring-like weather to the Southeast, it’s time to think about planting. And that means thinking about the last frost of the winter. AgroClimate has a tool which shows the last frost date by county for the Southeast. …