Climate summaries
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The North Carolina State published its monthly climate summary for February last week. You can read more about their current weather and climate conditions at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2024/03/spring-leaps-in-drought-creeps-back-in-february/.
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NOAA’s latest seasonal report was released late last week covering the February and December through February winter climate. It shows that for the lower 48 states, it was the warmest winter on record since official records began in 1895. The Southeast was the only region where the temperatures were near normal due to the cooler…
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The winter season (December through February) has just ended, and based on preliminary statistics, it looks like most of the Southeast was warmer than normal, although some areas in southern AL as well as in southwest GA and a lot of Florida were a little cooler than normal. Keep in mind that the current 1991-2020…
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Earlier this week, NOAA provided the global monthly climate summary for January 2024. It showed that this January had record warmth again this year, the latest in a string of record-breaking months. It was also the second wettest January on record. Temperatures were above average over much of the globe, but the eastern United States,…
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The latest monthly summary for January 2024 was released by NOAA on February 8. It shows that the country as a whole was the 10th wettest on record, with extraordinary rain and flooding in parts of the South, especially Texas and Louisiana. Because of the rain, drought conditions improved across a lot of the US…
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If you live in or near Florida or are just interested in what is happening in that part of the Southeast, you may want to listen to or read this story from WUSF featuring David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologist. In this piece, he describes the record-setting temperatures in Florida in 2023 and the outlook…
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The North Carolina State Climate Office has posted their latest monthly climate summary on their climate blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2024/02/drought-disappears-as-january-stays-wet-in-the-west/.
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