Climate summaries
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The folks from NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information Systems) have provided a nice summary of the 2019 year in review in ten maps related to drought across the US. We had our share in the Southeast, but it was dwarfed by the exceptional drought in the Four Corners region of the Desert Southwest. Note that…
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NOAA and NASA jointly released their global climate summaries for 2019 today at the American Meteorological Society meeting I am attending in Boston this week. Both agencies agreed that 2019 was the second warmest year for the globe since records began in 1880, after 2016, although they used slightly different methods to get their estimates.…
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The latest text summary of climate information for the Southeast is now available at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionAnnualClimateReport2019.pdf.
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The annual climate summary for the US is now available and shows that for the Southeast as a whole as well as the states of Georgia and North Carolina, 2019 was the warmest year on record. Other states in the Southeast were in the top three warmest. Precipitation was in the middle third of all…
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Climate summaries are now available for North Carolina and for the Southeast US for 2019. You can read them at the links below. I will write a separate post on what the entire US summary shows. North Carolina Southeast Regional Climate Center
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While the final statistics for 2019 are still being analyzed, here is a first look at the yearly climate of 2019 for the Southeast. Temperatures across most of the Southeast were well above normal again. A number of stations had an all-time record high for the year, including Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah GA, Key West…
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The North Carolina Climate Office has been posting recaps of the years in the 2010’s on Twitter and their blog in the last two weeks. Today’s version includes the full decade including a first look at 2019. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=307&h=5666e5c1.