Climate summaries
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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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Every official weather station across the state of Georgia was at least nine degrees above normal in February 2018, leading to what will be a record warm month once the final statistics are tallied. Numerous high temperature records were broken this month in conjunction with the hottest conditions in mid-month. This sits in stark contrast…
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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…