Climate summaries
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The latest quarterly issue of the Southeastern Regional Climate Center’s climate summary for summer 2019 is now available. It includes highlights of the last season and impacts on various sectors of the regional economy. You can read it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportSummer2019.pdf.
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NOAA released their latest global climate summary earlier this week. It shows that the earth as a whole tied for its second warmest August ever, after the record warm year in 2016. The summer June through August period was also the second warmest after 2016, and the year to date was the third warmest on…
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We are halfway through September, and many parts of the Southeast have received very little rain this month. The only big exception is the area hit by Hurricane Dorian. This, coupled with temperatures that are well above normal, is adding water stress to plants that are trying to make it to harvest and reducing stream…
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If you’ve been thinking that we have had a large number of days with maximum temperatures at or above 90 F, you are not mistaken. For many stations in the Southeast for the year to date, they have numbers which are ranked in the top five. We got an early start this year with quite…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released an early summary of the impacts of Hurricane Dorian on the coast of North Carolina. Obviously, the impacts are not over yet as roads on the barrier islands are washed out and some people are still trapped in the Ocracoke region, but this is a rapid look…
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The latest national climate summary for the US came out today. It shows that for the contiguous US it was the 13th warmest on record, but Alaska had its second warmest summer ever (it was beautiful when I visited in June, but the whole summer there has been much above normal in temperature and plagued…
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The latest monthly climate summary for Florida is now available. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/flmonthly2019_08.pdf.
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