Climate summaries
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David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist, posted a new blog entry today on the blog site for the Southeast Innovative Farming Team (SIFT). Here is the link. In the post he discusses the cold weather that we expect for the rest of February and the winter to date. Looks like the groundhog was right–winter is…
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The NOAA monthly climate summary for January 2015 is now out and shows that the contiguous US as a whole, the average temperature was warmer than normal and the total precipitation was below normal. The warmest parts of the US were in Oregon and the West Coast and the coolest parts were in southern Texas…
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The climate summary for Florida for January 2015 is now available at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-january-2015.
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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…