Climate summaries
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In comparison to last month, January 2015 was cooler and drier than normal across most of Georgia. Several tornadoes hit southern Georgia early in the month and a little snow was seen in the far northwestern region of the state in the second half of the month. Temperatures at almost all locations were a bit…
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The North Carolina climate summary for January 2015 is now available at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=119&h=5666e5c1.
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The preliminary summary for climate conditions in the Southeast for January is in, and shows that for most of the region, temperatures were cooler than normal and precipitation less than normal. For precipitation, the exception was eastern North Carolina, which was impacted by the coastal storms which developed in the Atlantic and tracked up the…
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Winston Eason of Clayton County wrote me this morning asking about finding maps for average chill hours for a class he is teaching on backyard fruit trees and orchards. So far I have not been successful in finding a Georgia-specific map on average chill hours, but I did run across several other sources of information…
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On paper, 2014 was close to an average year climatologically for Georgia. The annual average temperature was 63.0 F, just 0.4 F below the 1901-2000 average. The annual total precipitation was 51.13 inches, just 1.06 inches above the average. Both of these are well within the range of what is considered a “normal” year. But…
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As expected, today both NASA and NOAA released their climate summary reports for 2014 and confirmed that last year was the warmest on record for the globe as a whole (since global records began in 1880). Also as expected, there was a tremendous amount of media attention to this announcement. The temperature map below shows…
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The State Climatology Office of North Carolina has released their final segment of their 2014 climate summary. This section is on the western mountains in the state. You can read it at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=116&h=5666e5c1.
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