Climate summaries
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The monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available. They include statistics on temperature, precipitation and snowfall. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=334&h=5666e5c1.
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Today is the last day of meteorological winter, and in spite of being in a La Nina this year, it has not felt nearly as warm and dry as we usually expect from a LN winter due to the impacts of the Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) which pushed the storm track south into our region,…
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We are halfway through February, so I thought I would take a look at the climate so far this month. The temperature departure map shows that the southern half of the region is above normal for the month except for a few areas where the rain was the heaviest. This is what we would expect…
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The latest global climate summary for January 2021 is now available from NOAA. It shows that this was the 7th warmest January since the global record began in 1880. Some continents were near their warmest January on record, and the polar ice cover was lower than normal. You can read the summary at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202101.
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US is now available from NOAA. It shows that this January was tied for the 9th warmest in the 127 year record. It was also the tenth consecutive January with temperatures above the 20th-century average. The precipitation ranked in the driest third of the 127 years on record.…
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The latest monthly climate summaries for North Carolina and for the whole Southeast are now available. You can use the links below to access them. Note that the rain in eastern NC this year has caused a lot of problems for farmers there, since it has delayed harvest and field work considerably. NC: A ‘Fairy…
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Did January 2021 feel cold to you? It did to me. I must be getting old! In spite of my perceptions, though, it was actually warmer than normal in most of the region, especially in the nighttime temperatures. Rainfall across the region varied, with some areas receiving rain from storms that passed through the area…
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