Climate summaries
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The latest monthly summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportDecember2018.pdf.
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Here is an interesting map put together by Brian Brettschneider on how the annual average temperatures in 2018 compare to previous years. It is based on 1289 stations around the US that have temperature records going back at least 50 years. What is shows is that for large parts of the Southeast, 2018’s temperatures were…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their December 2018 climate summary. It also contains a summary of all the rain they had in 2018, including a potential new all-time annual record for the state. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=277&h=5666e5c1.
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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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