Climate summaries
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The latest national monthly climate summary for September 2018 was released today. It shows that for the contiguous 48 states, this was the 4th warmest and the 3rd wettest September since records began in 1895. The biggest event was Hurricane Florence, which no doubt contributed to the very wet conditions. You can read their summary…
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The latest monthly climate summary for September 2018 is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/climateinfo_files/monthly/southeast_monthly_report/southeast201809.pdf.
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You can read the latest monthly climate summary for Florida at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=528. It says that the tropical storm that eliminated drought in the Florida panhandle was Dennis, but I think they meant Gordon instead.
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September 2018 was very hot and dry across most of Georgia, with both daytime maximum temperatures and nighttime minimum temperatures several degrees above normal. Preliminary estimates indicate that Georgia’s September mean temperature will be one of the hottest on record. Rainfall in most of the state was below normal except for the northwest corner of…
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The preliminary climate summary for September 2018 for the US shows that the Southeast and farther north were the regions with the temperatures the most above normal, while precipitation varied widely due to the impacts of Tropical Storm Gordon and Hurricane Florence, which caused significant flooding in parts of the region while largely bypassing other…
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Do you think the humidity has been high this year? We certainly see the impacts of high dewpoint temperatures in night-time lows, which have been much above normal this summer. Dennis Mercereau of DAMWeather has done an interesting analysis of humidity conditions in the Eastern US this year and discovered that this has been an…
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The most recent quarterly climate summary for Summer 2018 is now available from the Southeastern Regional Climate Center. You can find it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportSummer2018.pdf.
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