Climate summaries
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NOAA released their monthly climate statistics for the United States today. They showed that for most of our region, precipitation was wetter than normal, although some areas were near normal. The driest areas were southwest Georgia and northern Virginia. The temperature was mostly near or slightly above normal, but no records were set in the…
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The monthly climate summary for North Carolina for April 2023 is now available from the North Carolina State Climate Office. It includes a discussion of the very wet April they had and how it reduced drought in the state. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2023/05/wet-weekends-continue-in-a-shower-soaked-april/.
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For the first half of April 2023, nearly all of the region was warmer than normal, but rainfall was very much hit or miss, with some areas receiving several times their usual rainfall while others had practically nothing. Generally the driest areas were also the warmest, which is not a surprise because there cloud cover…
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The latest monthly climate report for the United States was released today by NOAA. It shows that for the first three months of the year, the average temperature for five of the Southeastern states was the warmest since records began in 1895. Alabama just missed out with the second warmest on record. Precipitation was near…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office posted their latest monthly climate summary for March 2023 on their blog site earlier this week. You can find it at the link below. Overall, they were quite a bit drier than normal, so it is not surprising that drought expanded across the eastern part of the state. A…
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The preliminary climate summary maps for March 2023 show that the entire region was warmer than normal, although not as far above normal as February. And this was in spite of two separate periods of frost and low temperatures in the middle of the month. Most of the region was also drier than normal, although…
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