Climate summaries
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Spring is ending on May 31, and the preliminary climate maps show that for most of the Southeast, the season was cooler and drier than normal, although of course there are variations across the region. Alabama was wetter than normal across the state, but most of the rest of the Southeast had dry conditions, which…
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Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar + 2021 Hurricane Outlook Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 10 am ET/9 am CT
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 impacts of these conditions on topics…
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You might remember that the forecast for ENSO for this year was for La Nina to go away during the summer but potentially return in the fall. This is called double-dipping, since we have two years in a row with a La Nina. It happens from time to time with La Nina but almost never…
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We are about halfway through May 2021, and the preliminary values show that most of the region other than the Florida Peninsula have been colder than normal for the month so far. The western parts of the region have been relatively wet, while eastern Florida, SE Georgia, and the eastern parts of the Carolinas have…
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The latest monthly global climate summary for April 2021 was released today by NOAA. It shows that for the earth as a whole, this was the 9th warmest April since records began in 1880. This in spite of the fact that we are just coming out of a La Nina (that was declared today too),…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US for April 2021 was released earlier this week. It shows that for a lot of the US, temperatures were fairly mild. Most of the US was also drier than normal, including most of the Carolinas, although southern Georgia was an exception to that. You can read the…
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We are just a few days past the middle of April, and the maps for the month to date show that many parts of the Southeast are warmer and drier than normal, especially in southeastern Georgia and into South and North Carolina. Some areas have only received about five percent of their expected rainfall this…
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