Climate summaries
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Every month NOAA publishes a monthly climate summary which contains information about the ranking of temperature and precipitation by state, climate division, and region as well as statistics on how warm or cold, wet or dry each region is. But there is a wealth of additional information you might not know about. Deke Arndt of…
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The latest monthly climate summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. It was the warmest February for the Southeast since records began in 1895. You can view the report at https://sercc.com/climateinfo_files/monthly/southeast_monthly_report/southeast201802.pdf.
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An early look at the climate statistics so far this month show that while most of the Southeast has been cooler than normal so far this month, the precipitation amounts are all over the place, with some areas receiving 300% of normal so far while many other areas have received almost none. This has contributed…
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The latest monthly and seasonal climate summary for the US was released by NOAA today. You can read about it at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-201802. During February, the average contiguous U.S. temperature was 35.4°F, 1.6°F above the 20th century average. This ranked among the warmest third of the 124-year period of record. The February precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. was 2.84 inches, 0.71 inch…
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Here is my latest short article on the climate outlook for the 2018 growing season, to be published in UGA’s Peanut Pointers newsletter later this week: In spite of what seemed like very cold temperatures over the winter, the April-like temperatures we experienced across the Southeast in February have left us well above normal in…
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The latest climate summary for Florida for the month of February shows that the preliminary state average temperature is most likely to be the warmest ever Florida since records began in 1895. Many city records were also broken and a number of daily records were set. You can read more at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=519.
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The latest monthly climate summary for North Carolina is now available. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=255&h=5666e5c1.
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