Climate summaries
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If you ever get asked about what kinds of disasters have hit your county or community, you should check out the new Atlas of Disaster put together by Rebuild by Design and available here as a PDF file. They also have PDFs of individual staetes, such as this one for Georgia at GEORGIA.pdf (rebuildbydesign.org). You…
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NOAA’s latest global climate summary, released late last week, shows that this past September 2023 was the warmest on record for the earth as a whole. Nearly all of the globe was warmer than average, with most of it well above average and a substantial fraction the warmest ever. For the year to date, the…
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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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