Climate summaries
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The latest summary of climate conditions for Spring 2018 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportSpring2018.pdf.
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Today NASA and NOAA both released their monthly global climate summaries for May 2018. Both of them, using related data sets with different analysis techniques, show that this past May was the 4th warmest on record for each of the data sets. The warmest year was 2016 when the last El Niño was in full…
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June so far has been warmer than normal across the Southeast, with many areas also experiencing drier than normal conditions. Producers in the drier areas are especially happy to see fields drying out, which is allowing them to get out and finish planting or applying much needed sprays to their crops. The above-normal temperatures are…
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The latest monthly summary of climate for our region from the Southeast Regional Climate Center is now available. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportMay2018.pdf.
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According to the monthly summary for the US for May 2018, released today by NOAA, this past May was the warmest on record for the lower 48 states, beating the previous record from 1934 by more than half a degree. The warm temperatures were especially driven by warm nighttime temperatures. It was the wettest May…
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After a cold March and April, the state of Georgia rebounded in May with well above-normal temperatures for almost all of the state. May started out very dry but in the second half of the month, rain fell almost every day at many locations, leading to precipitation totals well above normal. This was aided by…
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The monthly climate summary for May 2018 is now available from the Florida Climate Center. According to their report, this is likely to be the wettest May in Florida’s climate history based on preliminary data (final results to come in a week or so from NCEI). You can read their report at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=522.
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