Climate summaries
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NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary for September 2023 today, and it shows that while September alone was near normal in temperature, Florida set a new record for the year to date from January through September. Other states in the region were in the top seven. Precipitation across most of the region was lower…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has posted the monthly climate summary for September 2023. You can view it at Autumn Arrived and the Tropics Came Alive in September – North Carolina State Climate Office (ncsu.edu).
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The preliminary climate summary maps for the Southeast show that most of the region was cooler and drier than normal for the month of September 2023. The overnight minimum temperatures were relatively cooler than the daytime maximum temperatures, in part because when it is dry, temperatures are more likely to keep falling overnight until sunrise.…
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Drought.gov has a good overview of drought conditions across the United States this year at https://www.drought.gov/news/summer-2023-review-look-back-drought-across-us-10-maps-2023-09-21. While we did not have much drought in the Southeast, it is interesting to see how it developed in other parts of the country and what evaporative stresses there were on parts of the Southeast, especially in Florida where…
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Rain this weekend will give way to mostly dry conditions for most of the Southeast during the work week except for Florida. Rain is moving through Alabama and Georgia on Saturday and will traverse the eastern parts of the region Sunday into Monday. The next few days will be dry before a coastal low pressure…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the United States was released earlier this week by NOAA. It shows that temperatures along the southern part of the Southeast were warmer than normal but northern areas were closer to normal. Precipitation varied across the region with a band of wet conditions stretching through Alabama, Georgia, and North…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released the latest annual State of the Climate report for 2022. It contains a comprehensive summary of the climate of 2022, including the impacts of the third year of La Nina and the cooling impacts of the Hunga Tonga eruption on the stratosphere, which some think have impacted the very warm…