Climate summaries
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Update: Slides are now available at https://site.extension.uga.edu/climate/files/2025/03/2024-growing-season-and-2025-outlook-march-28-2025-slides.pdf. The video is at https://youtu.be/HnsnUvNcW3k. I am planning to do a webinar on Friday, March 28, at 10:00 am EDT with a review of last year’s climate and a look ahead to the 2025 growing season. It will focus on Georgia but will also cover the Southeast more…
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Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! This webinar series provides the region with information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the impacts of these conditions on topics such as wildfires, agriculture production,…
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The World Meteorological Organization recently released its latest State of the World report. In it, it describes the carbon dioxide levels as the highest in 800,000 years and the annual average global temperature for 2024 as the highest since records began 175 years ago. An El Nino enhanced the warming caused by carbon dioxide and…
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A look at the summary of climate information for March so far shows that nearly the entire region was warmer than normal, but precipitation was more varied. It was generally wetter than normal in places that would usually be fairly dry in a La Nina winter, which probably reflects how weak it is this year.
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina for February 2025 was published earlier this week. It discussed the “bookend” warmth across the state and the wetter than normal conditions for the state as a whole. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2025/03/signs-of-spring-emerge-in-february-despite-a-snowy-speed-bump/. You may also be interested in watching a video of their “year in…
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The preliminary maps of temperature and precipitation for February 2025 show that the region as a whole showed a pattern that is consistent with the current La Nina that is occurring in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Warmer and drier conditions covered most of the southern parts of the region this month, while wetter than normal…
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Since it is halfway through the month, here is a quick look at the climate so far this month. The temperature departure map shows that everywhere in the Southeast is much warmer than normal after a cold start to winter. The pattern is especially intense in southern GA and AL and into Florida, as we…
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