Climate summaries

  • You can find the latest monthly climate summary for Florida at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?view=article&id=537. If you wonder why I never post monthly climate summaries for South Carolina, it is because they do weekly climate summaries instead. You can view those at https://www.dnr.sc.gov/climate/sco/ClimateData/cli_reports_2019.php.

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  • With just a couple of days left in the month, April 2019 is turning out to be warmer than normal in most of the region, with just a few areas in Alabama and Georgia experiencing cooler than normal conditions. Rainfall across the region has been variable, with the largest streak of rain falling in a…

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  • NOAA’s National Hurricane Center released their official report on Hurricane Michael today. It officially notes that Michael was a Category 5 storm. The report includes a number of observations from the University of Georgia weather network as well as many other sensor networks. You can read it at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142018_Michael.pdf.

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  • So far this month our temperatures have been well above normal across most of the Southeast. Precipitation has been more variable but has generally been near but a little above normal. The remainder of the month is expected to continue to be warmer than normal but should shift towards drier conditions.

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  • NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary for March 2019 this morning. It shows that for the contiguous 48 states, March was a bit cooler than the long-term average and also in the driest third of all years. The year to date shows us as just slightly cooler than the long-term average (the coldest start…

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  • The Southeast Regional Climate Center’s latest monthly climate summary for March 2019 is now available. You can access it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportMarch2019.pdf.

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  • March 2019 was near normal in temperature across the state, but almost all areas received much less than the normally expected rainfall, leading to an expansion in abnormally dry conditions in the southern half of the state as well as the introduction of some moderate drought in the southeast. A widespread severe weather outbreak on…

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