Climate summaries
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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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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their monthly climate summary for November 2022. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/12/novembers-weather-buffet-spanned-warm-to-wet-chilled-to-charred/.
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The latest monthly and seasonal regional summary maps show that November 2022 was very warm across the Southeast after a fairly cool October. Most parts of the region were wetter than normal this month except for the coastal plains. For fall, or September through November, temperatures were cooler than normal except the coastal plains and…
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November 30 marks the end of the Atlantic Tropical Season, one of our biggest weather-makers in the summer months. This year was a strange one, with a long period of no activity at all from the beginning of July through a good part of August. In spite of that, however, we saw a lot of…