Climate summaries
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The monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available from their State Climate Office, including a description of how Hurricane Michael affected that state as it is still recovering from Hurricane Florence. You can read it here.
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October 2018 started very hot across Georgia, with both daytime maximum temperatures and nighttime minimum temperatures up to ten degrees above normal in the northern two-thirds of the state, and 5 to 7 degrees above normal in the southern third during the first two weeks. The pattern flipped in the last two weeks, with below…
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There has been quite a change in the atmospheric pattern across the US from the beginning of October to now. If you look at the last 7 days of temperatures, you can see much above normal temperatures out west with below normal temperatures in the east (except for Florida). But if you look at the…
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The National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, GA has posted a summary of Hurricane Michael’s impacts on Georgia, including maps of wind speed, rainfall totals, photos, and maps of tornado paths associated with the storm. You can view it here.
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NOAA’s latest global climate summary came out earlier this week. It shows that for the earth as a whole, the temperature was the 4th warmest since records began in 1880. The year-to-date temperature is also the 4th warmest. You can read more at https://www.noaa.gov/news/september-2018-and-year-to-date-were-4th-hottest-on-record-for-globe.
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Has it felt like October to you? Probably not unless you live in southern Florida. Most of the region has been experiencing temperatures that are well above normal in both daytime highs and nighttime lows. If this continued, it would no doubt be a record-setting month. But with a cold front coming through the region…
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Once the next cold front passes through the Southeast in the next couple of days, fall weather will finally be here. For those of you who love hot weather, and those who hate it, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center has provided this web site which shows the average number of days that the heat index…