Climate summaries
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Even though the official Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1, and we have already had one named storm (Ana), June is usually not a time for a lot of hurricane development. Most storms that do occur form over the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, although as we saw in May, we get the…
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The latest monthly climate summary is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office and covers May 2021. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2021/06/may-flowers-wilt-amid-expanding-drought/.
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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),…