Climate summaries
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NOAA’s monthly climate summary for June 2018 for the globe was released this week. It shows that June was the 5th warmest for the period dating back to 1880. For the January through June period, it was the 4th warmest on record. You can see more statistics and read the summary report at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201806.
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We’re halfway through July, so let’s take a look at our current climate situation. Temperatures in the Southeast have been variable but in most cases fairly close to normal, especially when you compare it to our friends up north, who have experienced much warmer temperatures. At least in part this is due to precipitation and…
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The latest monthly summary of climate for the United States was released this morning by NOAA. It shows that for the US, the average June temperature was 3.0 degrees above the 20th century average. That makes it the third warmest since records began in 1895, after 1933 and 2016. For the January through June period,…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has just released their monthly climate summary for June 2018. You can access it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportJune2018.pdf.
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Warmer than normal temperatures in June across the state helped contribute to the development of frequent thunderstorms in the month of June. These storms produced scattered but sometimes heavy rain, causing flooding in some areas while leaving other areas, mostly in the southern half of the state, below normal. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their monthly climate summary for June 2018 this morning. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=260&h=5666e5c1.
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The preliminary High Plains Regional Climate Center maps for the Southeast in June 2018 show that almost everywhere was above normal in temperature, but rainfall was quite variable across the region. More areas were below normal than above normal, but there was a lot of scatter due to the convective nature of summer rainfall. The…