Climate summaries
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The North Carolina State Climate Office just released a summary of the impacts of Tropical Storm Nicole on North Carolina. It can be viewed at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/11/rapid-reaction-late-season-nicole-offers-needed-rainfall/.
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After one of the warmest ever starts to November, things are about to change. The forecast for the next two weeks shows a high probability of temperatures that are below normal. The long-range forecasts for weeks 3 and 4 vary, with some showing a return to warmer temperatures while others say the colder conditions will…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has released a new report that summarizes their heat and ozone season for 2022. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/11/heat-and-air-quality-in-2022-temperatures-ozone-peaked-in-june/. It also discusses the use of wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) for assessing athlete health and potential heat injury possibility.
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released today by NOAA. It shows that temperatures were in the warmest third of the record and precipitation in the lowest third of the record in October 2022. This helped spread drought conditions to nearly 2/3 of the Lower 48 states. This has led to the…
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The latest monthly climate summary is now available from the North Carolina State Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/11/dry-weather-dominates-a-cool-crisp-october/.
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As we exit October and enter November, a look back at the last month shows that across most of the region, temperatures were cooler than normal and precipitation was drier than normal in most areas but especially in the Southern Appalachians. I looked at the high and low temperatures separately and found that the overnight…
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Since we are halfway through October, let’s take a quick look at the month so far. The temperature has been cooler than normal across the region, but especially in Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. If you go to the High Plains Regional Climate center ACIS maps at https://hprcc.unl.edu/maps.php?maps=ACISClimateMaps, you can see that daytime high temperatures…
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