Climate summaries
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The North Carolina Climate Office posted an article today putting the April 13th tornado outbreak of 2020 (which occurred across the Southeast) in historical context. North Carolina reported 16 tornadoes in the outbreak from a total of 132 tornadoes across the Southeast, which is one of the days with the highest numbers in their state’s…
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Here is a nice summary of the tornadoes that occurred in the NWS Peachtree City area of responsiblity in last weekend’s severe weather outbreak. If you are in a different NWS region, check your own region’s page to see if they have a similar summary available. You can view it at https://www.weather.gov/ffc/2020412_severe.
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The National Weather Service’s weekly weather briefing is now available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00I2vROYQA&feature=youtu.be. It shows a recap of last week’s severe weather and a first glance at this coming weekend’s severe weather potential, although it is too early to give many details. The most likely timing of any severe weather would be Sunday afternoon/evening…
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We are half-way through April 2020, so here is a quick look at our current climate conditions. The map of temperature departures shows a continuation of above normal temperatures for April so far, although the temperatures have been somewhat closer to normal than in previous months. This pattern looks likely to continue through the end…
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The latest monthly global climate summary was released today by NOAA. It shows that March 2020 was the second warmest March in 147 years, behind only March 2016, when a strong El Nino was occurring. It was also one of the warmest of any months across the globe. January through March 2020 was also the…
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The latest monthly climate summary for March 2020 is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=314&h=5666e5c1.
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NOAA’s latest climate summary for March 2020 was released today. In it they show that March was the 10th warmest on record and was in the top third of years for precipitation. They also noted that so far this year the US has had two billion-dollar disasters, both due to severe weather. You can read…
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