Climate summaries
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The North Carolina State Climate Office posted their latest monthly and seasonal climate summary earlier this month but I forgot to post it earlier. It shows the wet conditions from Hurricane Debby as well as dry conditions in the western mountains. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2024/09/debbys-deluge-late-august-heat-ends-a-summer-of-extremes/.
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Earlier this week NOAA released their monthly climate summary for the globe for August 2024. It showed that this was the 15th month in a row that set a record high temperature for the globe in 175 years of data. It was also the 2nd lowest area of Antarctic sea ice. Nearly all of the…
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The latest monthly and seasonal climate summary for the United States for August and Summer 2024 was released by NOAA earlier this week. It showed that while August was not a lot above normal in most of the United States, it was very warm in the Southwest, and overall the summer (June through August) was…
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As expected, the August 2024 precipitation was a feast or famine depending on where you are. The pattern was dominated by the passage of Hurricane Debby early in the month. That brought a lot of rain to Florida and eastern parts of the region but left a lot of the rest dry. Temperatures varied across…
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The yearly global climate summary for 2023 is now available from the American Meteorological Society. This is the 34th year in a row that a similar summary has been written. You can go right to the document at https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/ or you can read a blog post with the key messages here.
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Update: Read a Summary and Replay the Webinar Join us for the Southeast Climate Monthly Webinar! This webinar series provides the region with 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…