Climate summaries
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Yesterday NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information released their annual climate summary for the United States for 2022. Among the statistics they pointed out were the extensive coverage of drought across the contiguous US and the 3rd costliest hurricane on record due to Hurricane Ian. You can read all the information at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202212. For the…
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The latest climate summary for North Carolina was released this morning, including a discussion of the cold weather over Christmas. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2023/01/a-christmas-chill-decked-decembers-halls/.
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If you are interested in learning about where lightning occurs most often, you will enjoy reading Vaisala’s annual report of lightning statistics based on their National Lightning Detection Network. You can access it at https://www.xweather.com/annual-lightning-report. It shows the areas with highest lightning density by state and how it compares to previous years. They also provide…
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This time of year we are subjected to all sorts of lists of the best, worst, and most notable of the past year. Summaries of the past year’s events are also posted frequently. Weather and climate are no exception. Here is a collection of “highlights of 2022” focused on US or world weather and climate…
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While the final values for the temperature and climate of the Southeast in 2022 are not complete yet, we can still look at preliminary values to see how the year ended. The pattern generally agrees with what we expect from the persistent La Nina conditions. The maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show…
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Here is an interesting presentation in the form of a storymap showing the impacts of Hurricane Ian on South Florida. It was put together by the NWS office in Miami. Since South Florida was to the right of the track, they received some of the worst impacts from the storm. You might enjoy their analysis…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the globe was released by NOAA this week. It shows that the global temperature was the tied for the 9th warmest on record. But despite that, it was the coolest November since 2014. It was also the 5th warmest September through November on record for the globe. You can…
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