The monthly climate summary for the US was released by NOAA late last week. The summary showed that due to extraordinary heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and in the Northeast, the average temperature for the 48 contiguous states was 72.6 F. That is 4.2 degrees above normal and higher…
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The latest monthly climate summary for June 2021 is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/07/rainfall-extremes-in-june-jumble-the-state-drought-map/.
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June 2021 was wetter and cooler than normal across a lot of the region. The only areas with temperatures warmer than normal were eastern Virginia, southwest Georgia and central Florida. The wettest spots were in western Alabama and eastern North Carolina, while dry conditions were present in western NC and…
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The latest global climate summary for May 2021 was released by NOAA this week. It shows that May tied for the 6th warmest on record. The map below shows that the Southeast was one of just a few areas of the world that was cooler than normal. For the spring…
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NOAA released their monthly climate report for May 2021 today. It showed that May was quite mild across the US, with most of the Southeast cooler than normal but the Florida peninsula warmer than normal. Most of the Southeast was also drier than normal other than Alabama and a band…
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Even though the official Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1, and we have already had one named storm (Ana), June is usually not a time for a lot of hurricane development. Most storms that do occur form over the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, although as we saw…
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The latest monthly climate summary is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office and covers May 2021. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/06/may-flowers-wilt-amid-expanding-drought/.
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