Climate summaries
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The folks at the North Carolina Climate Office were up bright and early this morning and have already put together a report on the impacts of Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall near Wilmington NC last night a little after 11 pm and crossed the state over the next few hours. Today it is moving through…
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The latest monthly summary for July 2020 for North Carolina is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=320&h=5666e5c1.
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The latest monthly climate summary for July 2020 shows that for most parts of the Southeast, temperatures were above normal. Rainfall across the region was variable, but overall it was drier than normal. Some areas of moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions appeared by the end of the month in the areas with the lowest…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released today by NOAA. It shows that June 2020 was one of the hottest and driest on record for the country as a whole, although the Southeast was relatively cool. In addition, the first half of 2020 brought 10 billion-dollar weather disasters. This makes 2020 the sixth consecutive…
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The latest monthly climate summaries for June 2020 are now available from the North Carolina Climate Office and the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can view them at: North Carolina: https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=318&h=5666e5c1 Southeast: https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJune2020.pdf
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For most of the Southeast, June 2020 turned out to be cooler and drier than normal, although there were some notable exceptions due to Tropical Storm Cristobal in the first week. In spite of the drier than normal conditions, many producers are complaining about moisture-related diseases affecting their crops this year, which may be due…
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My friend John Feldt is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist who provides weather and climate information to producers across the country. He posted this great summary of this year’s severe weather season on his site at https://www.bluewateroutlook.com/. He gave me permission to reproduce it here. The jet stream weakens and pushes north approaching July. This usually…