Climate summaries
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We are about halfway through the month of November, so let’s take a look at where we are. The temperature departure map shows that nearly all of the Southeast was cooler than normal, and in some places as much as 5 degrees lower than normal, especially where it was wet. Precipitation was hit or miss,…
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NOAA published the monthly global climate summary today. It shows that this past October was the 4th warmest on record for the earth as a whole going back to 1880. You can read more at Global Climate Report – October 2021 | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (noaa.gov).
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US for October 2021 was released earlier this week by NOAA. The data show that October 2021 was the sixth warmest since records began in 1895. It was also the 9th wettest October, thanks to some strong storms, especially out West (although not much tropical contribution from Atlantic…
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The latest monthly summary for North Carolina for October 2021 was released today by the NC State Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/11/october-bewitched-by-warmth-and-bedeviled-by-drought-development/.
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With October almost in the books, a quick look shows that it was warmer than normal across the region, especially overnight lows. Precipitation varied, with the western areas generally wetter and the eastern areas generally drier. Forecasts for the first two weeks of November show conditions are likely to be cooler and drier than normal,…
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We’re about halfway through October, and so far the month is quite a bit warmer than normal. The daytime maximum temperatures are somewhat above, but the overnight minimum temperatures are even more above normal. Precipitation is variable across the region, with Georgia and Alabama wetter than normal while eastern parts of NC and VA are…
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Here’s a great video that describes the extremes we have had this past year by Jeff Masters, who was previously with Weather Underground and is now a meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections. He does a great job describing severe weather events around the world in the past year in this video. You can view it…