Climate summaries
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The preliminary maps for February 2018’s climate show that most of the region experienced temperatures of roughly ten degrees F above normal. This far surpassed the previous records at many stations, most of which were set in the past few years. Quite a contrast from January! Precipitation was below average in the Florida peninsula and…
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With just a couple of days to go until the end of the winter season, it’s pretty clear that in spite of some very cold weather, the warm conditions in early December and in most of February are going to result in warmer and drier conditions for the winter, just as we expected with La…
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The latest monthly summary of global climate conditions has been released by NOAA today, and it shows that this past January was the 5th warmest since records began in 1880. According to their report, “the 397th consecutive month (since January 1985) with temperatures above the 20th-century average. The last four years (2015-2018) saw the five…
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The climate for the first half of February 2018 in the Southeast shows warm conditions across most of the region, especially in the southern areas. Quite a change from January! Wet conditions are apparent in the northern sections, but drier than normal conditions are present in the Florida peninsula and along the Atlantic coast. This…
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This morning NOAA released the monthly climate statistics for the US for January 2018. While we have been cold and dry here in the Southeast, more than half the lower 48 states have been well above normal in temperature. The country as a whole was in the top third of all years since 1895 for…
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A few of you have asked for a summary of the 2017 climate and a peek into what is likely to be ahead for the 2018 growing season. While I don’t have a crystal ball to give definitive answers, I can at least look into the haze and tell you what I think might happen.…
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The latest post from Steve Hilberg on the CoCoRaHS blog discusses our current winter and what is likely to be ahead for the rest of the season. For meteorologists, we are now 2/3 of the way through winter, with spring beginning on March 1. It’s very interesting to see the difference before and after December…