Climate summaries
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The latest monthly climate summary for the US was released by NOAA today. It shows that for the lower 48 states, this was the wettest December through February period on record (going back to 1895). Most of the country was wetter than normal, with only a small part of the 48 states drier than normal. […]
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The latest monthly summary for February 2o19 is now available from the Florida Climate Center as a PDF download at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=533.
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The latest monthly climate summary from North Carolina is now available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=279.
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Warmer than normal temperatures covered Georgia again in February 2019, with values ranging from five to nine degrees F above average. Heavy rainfall covered the northern quarter of the state, while precipitation two to four inches less than normal covered the rest of the state. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 53.8 degrees F […]
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Did you know that for meteorologists and climatologists, winter is over? We use December 1 through February 28 (or 29 in leap years) as the winter season. Spring starts for us on March 1 and goes until May 31. This past winter was expected to be wetter and cooler than normal due to the expected […]
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With just a couple of days to go, the temperature departures for this month are showing that we just experienced another warmer than normal February. The result of the warm weather is that plants are once again blooming ahead of schedule, potentially setting us up for another bad March if the cold air that is […]
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NOAA released their global climate summary for January 2019 today. It shows that the average global temperature for the month was tied for the 3rd warmest on record with 2007. January 2016 and 2017 were both warmer. The ten top warmest global temperatures for January have all occurred since 2002, with records that go back […]