Climate summaries
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After any winter storm, armchair meteorologists complain about how bad the forecast was, how the National Weather Service and broadcast meteorologists blew it, and how disappointed they are. Dr. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography professor, put together this side-by-side comparison to show that in this very tricky situation, the NWS did a fantastic job of getting…
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The EDEN Wednesday blog posting linked to a great article by Tom Skilling of WGN in Chicago describing more about the current weather pattern that has been affecting weather across the country. Tom is one of the premier meteorologists in media today, and his blog posting does a great job of explaining the current climate…
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AgWeb published a story today on predictions that farmers in the northern part of the country may face delays in spring planting due to the winter conditions this year. The maps below show the 60 day departures from normal for temperature (left) and precipitation (right) from the High Plains Regional Climate Center. The combination of…
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NOAA has just released their final summary of the 2014 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean (link to storm summaries). It shows that the season was below average in activity, as expected, and that not a single storm hit the US mainland this year except a brush by Arthur on the North Carolina Outer Banks. Since…
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The Southeast continues to lie under a mass of frigid air that came over the pole from Siberia, as I discussed in my post yesterday. This morning many record low temperatures were set, including a new record low for Key West, FL of 50 degrees. Fortunately, the winds were a bit lighter today so it…
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NOAA has released its global climate summary for January 2015 today. You can read the full analysis at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/1. The latest summary shows that for the Earth as a whole, the average temperature was the second warmest since records began in 1880. However, the distribution of temperatures was varied as usual. The map below shows the…
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As expected, the frigid air has arrived in the Southeast, and near-record setting temperatures were experienced across a lot of the area this morning. The map from CRONOS from the North Carolina State Climatology Office at 8 am below shows the extent of the cold air. Today the maximum high temperature in many areas will…