Climate summaries
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The latest monthly climate summary for the earth as a whole was issued by NOAA this morning. It shows that for the whole world, November was the 4th warmest since global records began in 1880. You can read more at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202111. The September through November period was also the 4th warmest on record. The Southeastern…
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You might not think it if you live in the Southeast, but the month of November for the US as a whole was the 7th warmest on record (going back to 1895) due to the very warm conditions out west where there is a bad drought. Here in the Southeast, most of the region was…
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The latest monthly summary for North Carolina’s climate is linked here. In it, they look at one of their driest Novembers on record and discuss how it is impacting the development of drought there.
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Today marks the last day of the official 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. While it ended up very quiet compared to what I expected, it still was one of the most active seasons on record as well as the most costly, according to CNN. A second story on the season from Yale Climate Connections is embedded…
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It’s nearly the end of November, and that means another round of climate summaries. The summary for November 2021 shows that the entire region was colder than normal (with a couple of individual stations as outliers). Rainwise, most parts of the region were also drier than normal. The exception is the Florida peninsula, where they…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has posted a new blog entry on some of their last big snow events. The last few winters have been lacking in significant snow events there and they are looking back to some of the last big snow events they have had in the state. You can read more…