Climate summaries
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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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The latest monthly summary for North Carolina covering May 2018 is now available. Sneak preview: it was their wettest May ever! You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=259&h=5666e5c1.
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The preliminary maps for May 2018 show that temperature was well above normal for most of the region except for the Florida peninsula. Precipitation was above normal for most of the Southeast except for far western regions of the area. A lot of that surplus rain fell in the last two weeks with a plume…
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The latest global climate summary from NOAA for April 2018 shows that this month was the third warmest April since records began in 1880, surpassed only by 2016 and 2017. This makes 400 months in a row with temperatures that were at least slightly above the 20th century average. Temperatures were buoyed by a very…
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NASA released their monthly climate summary for the globe today. It shows that for the earth as a whole, this is the third warmest April in 138 years of record, falling below only 2016 and 2017. Note that the only place on earth that was below the long-term average this year was the eastern half…
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