Climate summaries
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Warmer than normal temperatures covered Georgia again in February 2019, with values ranging from five to nine degrees F above average. Heavy rainfall covered the northern quarter of the state, while precipitation two to four inches less than normal covered the rest of the state. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 53.8 degrees F…
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Did you know that for meteorologists and climatologists, winter is over? We use December 1 through February 28 (or 29 in leap years) as the winter season. Spring starts for us on March 1 and goes until May 31. This past winter was expected to be wetter and cooler than normal due to the expected…
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With just a couple of days to go, the temperature departures for this month are showing that we just experienced another warmer than normal February. The result of the warm weather is that plants are once again blooming ahead of schedule, potentially setting us up for another bad March if the cold air that is…
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NOAA released their global climate summary for January 2019 today. It shows that the average global temperature for the month was tied for the 3rd warmest on record with 2007. January 2016 and 2017 were both warmer. The ten top warmest global temperatures for January have all occurred since 2002, with records that go back…
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This week Popular Science posted an interesting new graphic on the global temperature. In addition to the yearly totals, it also highlights when the record high years occurred as the record got longer. It also highlights year by how much the temperature was above the long-term average. You can see a better view and read…
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The National Centers for Environmental Information are continuing to catch up from the government shutdown and provided their annual climate summary for 2018 for the United States this week. It shows that as a whole, the Southeast was much warmer than normal and was also much wetter than normal, with North Carolina and Virginia experiencing…
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NOAA and NASA released their joint climate summary for 2018 for the globe today. The report shows that 2018 was the 4th warmest year on record for the earth as a whole, and the last five years were the 5 hottest on record. The US experienced 14 disasters with damages that were $1 billion or…
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