Climate summaries
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December 2018 was two to four degrees warmer than normal across most of Georgia, ending a warm but not record-setting year for the state. Precipitation in most of the state was much wetter than normal, with a significant fraction of the state receiving well in excess of 10 inches of rain. A number of stations…
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Georgia experienced many different weather and climate patterns in 2018. Here are five that stand out for their impacts on the state, listed in more or less chronological order. Snowy January Two different snow storms affected parts of Georgia in January 2018. Early in the month, snow fell in a swath across southern Georgia, bringing…
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Here’s a quick look at the 2018 climate across the Southeast using the High Plains Regional Climate Center’s map site. The maps show that almost all of the Southeast experienced temperatures that were 1-2 degrees F above normal. Precipitation was also well above normal in most of the Southeast, fed by several tropical systems as…
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The month of December so far is running quite a bit wetter than normal, especially in southern Alabama and Georgia and northern Florida. This is consistent with the El Niño-like pattern we are in this year. Temperatures are variable across the region but there are more areas with below normal temperatures than above. However, with…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the globe was released today by NOAA, and it shows that this November was the 5th warmest since records began in 1880. For the year to date, it is the 4th warmest, and for the September through November period, it was the second warmest on record. In November, the…
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The latest monthly climate summary from NOAA was released this week. It shows that November was 1.6 degrees F colder than average, making it the 3rd coldest November on record. The precipitation average for the continental US was 0.41 inches above normal, which puts it in the top third of all years. The Southeast was…
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The latest monthly summary for November 2018 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can access it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportNovember2018.pdf.
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