Climate summaries
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The North Carolina State Climate Office published their latest monthly summary for February 2026 online. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2026/03/snow-melted-but-severe-drought-continued-in-february/.
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While the official records for winter 2025-2026 are not yet in, unofficially this is one of the warmest winters for the United States on record. For those in the eastern third of the country, it probably did not feel like it considering the repeated advances of cold air into the region, bringing in snowy and…
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With just a couple of days left in the official winter season, we can see that the region as a whole was much drier than normal for the last 90 days, as we would expect in a La Nina winter, even though it was a fairly weak event. The temperature across the region is expected…
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I have seen several snowfall maps of the snow that fell during the storm this past weekend put together by various television meteorologists and others. Here is one I like that was created using the NOHRSC National Gridded Snowfall Analysis by Jordan McLeod of the University of South Alabama that really captures the complexity of…
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The annual summary of the climate of the United States was published earlier this week by NOAA. It shows that 2025 was the fourth warmest year since US records began in 1890. Almost none of the lower 48 states was cooler than normal. You can read the summary at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202513. In addition to temperature and…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released their annual summary of global climate conditions for 2025. The observations showed that 2025 was the third warmest year on record, right behind last year (the warmest on record) and 2023, the second warmest on record. Temperatures this year were slightly cooler than in the previous two years because of…
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The annual overview of the worst disasters in the US was formerly collected by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. While some people question its relevance, it does provide a decent overview of how much weather and climate impacted our country this past year. But with the downsizing of NOAA this past year, the billion-dollar-disaster…