Climate summaries
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The latest issue of NOAA’s Beyond the Data blog by Deke Arndt looks at the statistics of March 2018 in the larger context of how to interpret anomaly maps and trends and discusses what a billion-dollar weather disaster really means. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/all-things-being-equal-edition.
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With almost half the month gone, April 2018 so far is colder than normal in all of the region except for the Florida peninsula, which has been above normal in temperature. Rainfall for most of the region is well below normal except for a band in northern Florida associated with a stationary front which dropped…
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The latest official reports on the 2017 hurricanes has been released. Hurricane Maria was the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in modern times. Since it hit 201 days ago, there are still 100,000 citizens without power and many without safe drinking water. And the next hurricane season starts in a few weeks. You…
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NOAA’s monthly summary for the US shows that “In the first three months of 2018, there have been three weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the U.S. These events included a severe storm event in the Southeast and two winter storm events in the central and eastern U.S. Overall, these events…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center has published their climate summary for March 2018. You can find it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportMarch2018.pdf.
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After a record-setting warm February in the Southeast, it shocked many people to swing back to colder than normal temperatures in March. In many places, the average temperature for March was colder than the average temperature for February this year. Precipitation in most of the state was also below normal, leading to an increase in…
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The Florida Climate Center has released their latest climate summary, for March 2018. You can read it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=520.
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