Climate summaries
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In a post earlier this week I talked about the source of all the cold air that has been affecting the US this month. The source region for the frigid air was northern Russia and Siberia. This week NASA posted their October 2014 climate summary, which showed that the earth as a whole was the…
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Today NOAA released its climate summary for the US for the month of October. It shows that for the continental US as a whole, October 2014 was the fourth warmest on record. Most of this heat was driven by record-setting warmth in the western US due to the continuing drought in California and surrounding states. …
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The latest Drought Monitor shows that moderate (D1) drought has expanded in the Southeast from last week. Two areas have been newly designated in D1, including east central Georgia and central and western Alabama. The percentage of the Southeast in D1 has expanded from 6.6 to 9.2 percent of the area. For more details, go…
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The first few days of November have been more than nine degrees below average for most of the Southeast. You can visualize this data for yourself (sample current map shown below) at the High Plains Climate Center’s current climate summary maps website: https://www.hprcc.unl.edu/maps/current/index.php?action=update_region®ion=US Unfortunately for those who like warm weather, these cold conditions are expected to…
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The unusual early-season snowstorm that hit the East Coast this past weekend was the result of an upper-level low pressure area which rotated around a deep dip in the polar jet stream, bringing extremely cold air aloft to the region. The result of this cold air high in the atmosphere was to cause precipitation to…
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You can find the climate summaries for October 2014 for Florida and North Carolina at the links below. The Georgia summary was posted yesterday on this blog. Florida https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-october-2014 North Carolina https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=103&h=5666e5c1
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The state was split into “haves” and “have nots” in October as precipitation was plentiful in western Georgia but sorely lacking in the east. Temperatures across the state were generally above normal and many record highs were broken or tied. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 66.2 degrees F (2.9 degrees above normal), in…