Climate summaries
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My favorite Twitter climatologist, Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49, produced this series of maps for fall showing the trends over the last 50 years, just a few years shorter than the average age of a farmer in the US. The maps show that for fall, there is only one county in the US (in SE Iowa) that…
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The latest quarterly climate summary is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can access it at https://sercc.com/periodic-reports-quarterly/.
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NOAA released their monthly climate summary for the world earlier today. It showed that August 2021 was the 6th hottest August since records began in 1880. Summer 2021 was the second warmest on record for North America, following 2012. The Northern Hemisphere summer also tied 2019 as the 2nd hottest on record due to a…
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UPDATE: See the recap at https://www.drought.gov/drought-status-updates/southeast-climate-update-and-webinar-recap-7. Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! These webinars provide the region’s stakeholders and interested parties with timely information on current and developing climate conditions such as drought, floods, and tropical storms, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. Speakers may also discuss the…
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The latest monthly and seasonal summaries for the US were released by NOAA earlier this week. August 2021 was the 14th warmest August on record, and the summer months of June through August came out just slightly ahead of 1936 for the warmest summer since 1895. They reported that over 18 percent of the US…
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One of my favorite climatologists, Brian Brettschneider (@climatologist49 on Twitter) has provided a great set of two maps that show the last 12 months in historical context for the US. He compares the current 12-month period that just ended at the end of August to previous 12-month periods going back to 1895 to see how…
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With the end of August, we have reached the official end of climatological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Maps of the temperature and precipitation departures show that in general, the precipitation was wetter than normal and the temperature was cooler than normal, although as usual there is quite a bit of variation across the region.…
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