Climate summaries
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The forecast for rain on Saturday did not look too hopeful for rain in Georgia, but the latest forecast released today looks a lot more favorable for at least an inch of rain this week. We won’t see much if anything from Tropical Storm Arthur, which will be off to our east, but a complex…
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The latest global climate statistics are now available from NOAA. The new summary for April 2020 shows that the global monthly temperature was the second warmest on record, falling a tenth of a degree below April 2016, which was an El Nino year. Unlike a lot of the world, the Southeast was in a relatively…
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available from the North Carolina Climate Office. You can view it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=316&h=5666e5c1.
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The latest monthly climate summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportApril2020.pdf.
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The monthly climate statistics for the US for April 2020 was released today. You can read the complete summary at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202004. The temperature and precipitation were both just below the 20th century average. For the Southeast, both temperature and precipitation were above average. However, for the US for the year to date the temperature was…
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What a strange April it has been! Even the weather was unsettled. Some areas, particularly in the northern part of the region, were cooler than normal, while other areas like South Florida baked in hot, dry conditions. Rainfall was quite variable, with some areas receiving much more than normal while others missed out on most…
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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…